John Lewis of Hungerford Plc announced the appointments of Alan Charlton and Stephen Huggett as Non-executive Directors of the Company. The Company also announces that James Barnard, Non-executive Director, has resigned as a director of the Company. The changes are being implemented with immediate effect. Kiran Noonan, Managing Director, remains Acting Chairman until an independent Non-executive Chairman is appointed. Alan Charlton was appointed as a director of several subsidiary companies within the Austin Reed Group on 5 June 2006, each of which he resigned as a director from on 6 June 2016 as follows: ARG (Property) Limited, AR Realisations 2016 Limited, ARG Realisations 2016 Limited and CC Realisations 2016 Limited, each entered into administration proceedings on 26 April 2016 which remain ongoing.