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Plant Health Care PLC06 March 2006 Immediate release 6 March 2006 Plant Health Care Plc ("PHC" or "the Group") Appointment of Finance Director The Board of Plant Health Care is pleased to announce the appointment of WalterBratkowski (aged 51) to the Board as Finance Director on Friday 3 March 2006. MrBratkowski has been serving as PHC's Chief Financial Officer since July 2005. Prior to joining PHC, Mr Bratkowski was a consultant at Resources Connection, inPittsburgh, United States, where he provided financial consulting services thatincluded strategic and financial planning, merger and acquisition analysis andSarbanes-Oxley documentation. Between 1999 and 2003 Mr Bratkowski was Directorof Corporate Development at Tech Data Corporation in Clearwater, Florida, wherehe was responsible for mergers, acquisitions and strategic outsourcinginitiatives, including the acquisition of Aslan Group Plc. Mr Bratkowski started his career at Peat, Marwick, Mitchell & Co, where he wascertified as a Public Accountant. He received a B.S. in Administration andManagement Science and Economics, as well as a Masters in BusinessAdministration from Carnegie Mellon University. During the 1990's Mr Bratkowskiheld positions at Westinghouse Electric Corporation where he was Manager ofFinancial Accounting and Business Planning, and at Reese Brothers Inc, where hewas Director of Finance and Planning. Dr Albert Fischer, non-executive Chairman of PHC commented, "We are delighted towelcome Walt to the Board of PHC. Walt has already introduced significantdevelopments to enhance our financial systems and processes since he joined us,and his extensive corporate experience will further strengthen the Board at atime when the Group is looking forward to a period of growth." There is no further information to be disclosed under Schedule 2g of the AIMRules. Walter Bratkowski currently holds an option granted under the Plant Health Careplc Share Option Scheme 2004 ("the Scheme") over 100,000 ordinary shares of 1peach in PHC ("Ordinary Shares") with an exercise price of 62p per OrdinaryShare. The option was granted on 31 October 2005 and is exercisable between 31October 2008 and 30 October 2015, subject to the rules of the Scheme andperformance conditions being met. Mr Bratkowski does not currently have aninterest in Ordinary Shares. -ends- For further information please contact: Plant Health Care plcJohn Brady, CEO Tel: 001 603 525 3702 Tavistock Communications Tel: 020 7920 3150Jeremy CareyChristian Taylor-Wilkinson Notes to Editors: About Plant Health Care Plant Health Care plc ("PHC") is a leading provider of natural products forplants and soil. Established in 1995 in Pittsburgh (Pennsylvania) in the UnitedStates, PHC currently has approximately 60 employees and has operations in theUS, Mexico, UK, Spain, and the Netherlands. PHC's products are aimed at the horticulture, agriculture, turf grass,commercial landscaping and land reclamation industries and are bothenvironmentally beneficial and on the whole more cost effective than syntheticchemical alternatives. Through the commercialisation of these products, PHC iscapitalising on current long-term trends toward natural systems and biologicalproducts for plant care and soil and water management uses. The Company listed on the AIM market of the London Stock Exchange in July 2004.Ticker symbol is phc. Web Site: www.planthealthcare.com This information is provided by RNS The company news service from the London Stock ExchangeRelated Shares:
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