13th Feb 2007 07:02
Wren Homes Group PLC13 February 2007 For release 7.00am 13 February 2007 WREN HOMES GROUP PLC (WHG.L) SENIOR MANAGEMENT APPOINTMENT "Ex McCarthy & Stone Sales & Marketing Director Joins Wren" Wren Homes Group Plc ("Wren"), the AIM listed retirement homes developer,announces that Richard Hill has been appointed as Sales & Marketing Directordesignate, with immediate effect. Richard, aged 50, has 25 years of management experience in the UK house buildingsector, with his longest tenure being at McCarthy & Stone Developments Ltd,where he spent six years in the Midlands and Dorset, latterly as sales andmarketing director for the company's southern region and being responsible foraround 450 profit completions per annum. He later returned to the group as interim sales & marketing director beforeworking on a project for David Wilson Retirement Homes. He has also worked at Renaissance Retirement, in Dorset, as a Company Directorand before that he was at Wainhomes Southern, in Hampshire and at AlfredMcAlpine Homes East Ltd, in Essex, both as a sales & marketing director. Richard started his career in sales and entered the house building industry in1981 with Maitland Selwyn, after being educated in the Midlands and in Somerset.His interests include sailing, where he is a qualified yacht master withcommercial endorsement (UK) and a qualified instructor (Australia). Said Paul Treadaway, Managing Director, Wren Homes: "Richard's proven track record in meeting sales targets and forward sales, andhis business, sales, marketing and financial skills at blue chip companies inthe sector should make a valuable contribution to Wren, which intends tocontinue to concentrate on developing apartments for 'active' retired people, asopposed to those requiring care." "We believe that identified changes to the UK's demographic pattern willcontinue to see increased demand by growing numbers of the 'over-sixties' forretirement apartments in our core operating areas of the southern M 25 corridorand in other areas we are targeting geographically." Ends EnquiriesWren Homes Group plc Paul Treadaway, Managing Directorwww.wrenhomesplc.co.uk Tel: 01372 742 244 JM Finn Leslie Kent (Sales)/Matthew Robinson/Charles Cunningham (Corporate Finance) Tel: 0207 628 9688 Adventis Financial PR Peter Binns/Tarquin Edwards Tel: 020 7034 4760 / 020 7034 4758 07768 392 582 / 07879 458 364 This information is provided by RNS The company news service from the London Stock ExchangeRelated Shares:
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