Coats’ parent company, GPG plc, announces that Mike Clasper, currently a Non-Executive Director of GPG plc and Chairman of Coats plc, has also been appointed Chairman of GPG with immediate effect. In addition, Coats’ Non-Executive Director Ruth Anderson has been appointed as a Non-Executive Director of GPG and Chair of GPG’s Audit, Finance and Risk Committee also with immediate effect.
Winter Olympics double gold medallist, Rosi Mittermaier, demonstrated her knitting skills on the Coats stand at h+h today. Coats plc, the world’s leading industrial thread and consumer textile crafts business, has a large presence at the annual international trade fair for creative handicraft and hobby supplies being held in Cologne, Germany (21-23 March).