Appointment of Directors
BELL EQUIPMENT LIMITED
(Incorporated in the Republic of South Africa)
(Registration Number: 1968/013656/06)
Share Code: BEL
ISIN: ZAE000028304
("Bell" or "the Company")
APPOINTMENT OF DIRECTORS
In terms of section 3.59 of the Listings Requirements of JSE
Limited, the board of directors of Bell ("Board") has pleasure
in announcing that at its meeting held on 30 November 2015 the
Board appointed two new independent non-executive directors
effective 1 January 2016 and welcomes them to the Board. The
details of the two new directors are listed below, together
with a brief CV of each director:
- Derek Hamilton Lawrance
B.Com (Economics) Wits University; C.A.(S.A.)
Derek has been successful in managing multi-disciplinary
environments, including joint ventures with both local and
foreign partners; the development and implementation of
high-level business strategies requiring negotiating and
problem solving skills, as well as a knowledge of the
legal, financial and operational issues pertaining thereto.
He currently acts both as an independent director, chairman
or deputy chairman of the following companies: The Thekwini
and Amber House Funds Ltd, which are part of the SA Home
Loans Group, Expand a Sign International (Pty) Ltd, Bosch
Projects (Pty) Ltd, Mion Holdings (Pty) Ltd and ART Solar
(Pty) Ltd.
- Hendrik Roux van der Merwe
BA(Law) and LLB, University of Stellenbosch; LLM(Tax)
University of Witwatersrand
Hennie initially practiced as a commercial, corporate and
litigation attorney in Johannesburg, handling a number of
major mergers, acquisitions and JSE listings transactions
in the course of his practice.
He has held and continues to hold senior executive
positions and directorships in large stock exchange listed
corporate entities in the industrial sector and has
extensive experience in the implementation of growth and
turnaround strategies in the banking and commercial
sectors, both in South Africa and abroad. Since 1997 he
has been an executive director and subsequently Managing
Director of Trencor, a company listed on the JSE. He
continues to serve on boards of directors of various
companies, both listed and unlisted, including Trencor and
companies controlled by or associated with it.
Richards Bay
1 December 2015
Sponsor
RAND MERCHANT BANK (a Division of FirstRand Bank Limited)
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