Howdens announces that Roisin Currie and Suzy Neubert will be appointed as independent Non-Executive Directors of the Company with effect from 1 July 2024. Following their appointments, both Roisin and Suzy will join the Audit, Remuneration, Nominations, and Sustainability Committees of the Board.

Roisin has been the Chief Executive of Greggs plc ("Greggs") since May 2022. She joined Greggs as Group People Director in 2010 and later became Retail and Property Director. Roisin began her career at Asda where she spent 20 years, latterly as Retail People Director and then Distribution People Director. She is also Chair of the Employers Forum for Reducing Re-offending, a voluntary role working with the Ministry for Justice and New Futures Network, and she is a Trustee of the Duke of Edinburgh Awards Scheme.

Suzy is currently a non-executive director of Jupiter Fund Management Plc, Liverpool Victoria Financial Services Limited (where she is also Chair of the Investment Committee), and Isio (a pensions and actuarial consultancy business). She is also the Senior Independent Director at LondonMetric Property plc and a trustee of the King's Trust (formerly the Prince's Trust). Until May 2023, she held the position of Senior Independent Director of Witan Investment Trust Plc. Suzy has previously also served as an executive director, firstly as Managing Director of Equities at Merrill Lynch followed by 14 years as Global Head of Sales & Marketing at J O Hambro Capital Management Limited.

These disclosures are given in accordance with Listing Rule 9.6.11R. The Company also confirms that, following these appointments, it expects to meet two of the three diversity targets set out in Listing Rule 9.8.6R(9)(a), those being that at least 40% of the Board is made up of women and that at least one individual on the Board is from a minority ethnic background.

For further information please contact:

Forbes McNaughton, Company Secretary                                   +44 (0)207 535 1110

Mark Fearon, Director of IR and Communications                     +44 (0)7711 875070

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