Blue Planet Financials Growth & Income Investment Trust No 1 plc
Company Numbers: SC162796
6 September 2011
DIRECTORSHIP CHANGE - APPOINTMENT
The Board of Blue Planet Financials Growth & Income Investment Trust No 1 plc ("the Company") is pleased to announce the appointment of the Rt Hon Lord Steel of Aikwood as a non-executive Director
The Rt Hon Lord Steel of Aikwood, aged 73, was a Member of the Scottish Parliament and held the office of Presiding Officer (retiring in June 2003). He was a Member of Parliament from 1965 to 1997 and on his retiral was created a life peer. David Steel was leader of the Liberal Party from 1976 to 1988 and co-founded the Liberal Democrats with Roy Jenkins. A former British parliamentary delegate to the Council of Europe, in the 1989 European Parliamentary elections he was the first national of one country to stand in another member state, in the Central Region of Italy. He was President of Liberal International from 1994-96. He holds honorary doctorates from ten universities including his alma mater, the University of Edinburgh, was created a Privy Counsellor in 1977, knighted in 1990, awarded the Commander's Cross of the Order of Merit (Germany) in 1992, made a Chevalier de Legion d'Honneur of France and a Knight of the Thistle in 2004. He serves as a non-executive Director on boards of other companies including General Mediterranean Holding S.A which is listed in Luxembourg and is a former Director of Blue Planet International Financials Investment Trust plc.
No further information is required to be disclosed in respect of Rt Hon Lord Steel of Aikwood pursuant to LR 9. 6.13R (1) to (6).
The above announcement applies equally to each of the following ten Trusts
Company Name ISIN SEDOL PIC Code Blue Planet Financials Growth & Income Investment Trust No.1 plc GB00B19PPL85 B19PPL8 GB BPFA LN Blue Planet Financials Growth & Income Investment Trust No.2 plc GB00B19PPN00 B19PPN0 GB BPFC LN Blue Planet Financials Growth & Income Investment Trust No.3 plc GB00B19PPP24 B19PPP2 GB BPFE LN Blue Planet Financials Growth & Income Investment Trust No.4 plc GB00B19PPQ31 B19PPQ3 GB BPFG LN Blue Planet Financials Growth & Income Investment Trust No.5 plc GB00B19PPT61 B19PPT6 GB BPFI LN Blue Planet Financials Growth & Income Investment Trust No.6 plc GB00B19PPV83 B19PPV8 GB BPFK LN Blue Planet Financials Growth & Income Investment Trust No.7 plc GB00B19PPW90 B19PPW9 GB BPFM LN Blue Planet Financials Growth & Income Investment Trust No.8 plc GB00B19PPX08 B19PPX0 GB BPFO LN Blue Planet Financials Growth & Income Investment Trust No.9 plc GB00B19PQ150 B19PQ15 GB BPFQ LN Blue Planet Financials Growth & Income Investment Trust No.10 plc GB00B19PQG08 B19PQG0 GB BPFS LN
This announcement has been issued by the Secretary of the Company, Blue Planet Investment Advisers Ltd. The Secretary can be contact at:
Email: info@bpia.eu Telephone: +44 (0)131 466 6666
