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The Trustee

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


The Trustee of the Plan is Norcros Group (Trustee) Ltd. The Trustee Board is responsible for ensuring that the Plan is run in accordance with the Rules and is legally bound to protect the interests of the members. There are six Directors of the Trustee Board, three of whom are nominated by the Company and three by the membership. The member nominated Directors are made up of one active member, one deferred member and one pensioner member.

The statutory power of appointing new or additional Trustees is vested with Norcros Group (Trustee) Ltd. Norcros Limited has the power of appointment of all Directors of Norcros Group (Trustee) Limited but is constrained by the provisions of the constitution. The power to remove any Trustee Director from office requires a unanimous vote of the remaining members of the Board, although the Chairman can be removed from office by Norcros Limited.

At 31 March 2006 the Directors were:

 

Name

Date Appointment Expires

Category

 

Mr J D S Stark†

30 June 2010

Company Nominated

 

Mr D W Hamilton*

30 April 2008

Company Nominated

 

Mr N P Kelsall†

30 April 2009

Company Nominated

 

 

 

 

 

Mr B P Dowling†

31 January 2009

Member Nominated Deferred Member

 

Mr J A Turner*

8 January 2013

Member Nominated Active Member

 

Mr C Orange*†

4 February 2012

Member Nominated Pensioner

* Denotes a member of the Audit Committee.
† Denotes a member of the Investment Committee.

The Board of Norcros Group (Trustee) Limited meets at least once a quarter, the quorum for such meetings is four, of which at least one is a company appointed director and at least one is from the elected/selected members. Voting is by simple majority with the Chairman having the casting vote if necessary.

The full Board meets four times each year. The Board has approved the setting up of an Investment Committee and an Audit Committee who also meet during the year. Both committees report to the Board.

The Trustee has appointed the following professional advisers to deal with certain aspects of running the Plan and provide specialist advice:

Auditors
Horwath Clark Whitehill
Aquis House
49-51 Blagrave Street
Reading
Berkshire RG1 1PL

Investment Adviser
WCF Investment Consulting
3 Blackdown Road
Deepcut
Surrey GU16 6SH

Scheme Actuary
Mr M Condron
Mercer Human Resource Consulting Ltd
Tower Place
London
EC3R 5BU

Investment Managers and Custodians
Black Rock (previously Merrill Lynch Investment Managers)
33 King William Street
London EC4R 9AS

Henderson Global Investors Limited
4 Broadgate
London EC2M 2DA

Royal London Asset Management
55 Gracechurch Street
London
EC3V 0UF

State Street Global Advisers United Kingdom Limited
21 St James’s Square
London SW1Y 4SS

KAS Bank N.V.
Suite 560
Salisbury House
London Wall
London EC2M 5NU

Money Purchase Insurers
Scottish Widows Fund and Life Assurance Society
Standard Life Assurance Company

AVC Providers
The Equitable Life Assurance Society
Nationwide Building Society
Standard Life Assurance Company

Solicitors
Pinsent Masons
1 Gresham Street
London EC2V 7BU

Bankers
National Westminster Bank plc
5 Broad Street
Wokingham
Berkshire