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Appointment of a new Non-Executive Director

ASBISC Enterprises Plc
("ASBIS" or the "Company")

Appointment of a new Non-Executive Director

The Board of Directors of ASBISC Enterprises Plc is pleased to announce that Mr. Henri Richard has been appointed as a Non-Executive Director on the Company's Board of Directors.

Mr. Henri Pascal Richard (49) graduated from the Master Programme in Sciences and Physics at the University Paris Jussieu. He is currently a Senior Vice President, Chief Sales & Marketing Officer for Freescale Semiconductor, a world leader in the embedded semi-conductor industry. He is also a member of the board of Ultratech Inc.

During the past two decades, Mr. Richard has held various senior management positions in Europe with leading companies in the IT industry, including Vice President-EMEA Strategic Accounts with Seagate Technology and Vice President and Managing Director-Europe, Middle East and Africa for Conner Peripherals.

Previously, he was Vice President of Marketing with Metrologie International (France), and Chief Executive Officer with Informatique Haute Performance (France), a company he founded. Since his move to the United States in the late nineties, Mr. Richard was Vice President Sales & Support WW Distribution & E-Business, IBM Technology Group, and was a member of IBM's top 300 executives group. He also was Executive Vice President, WW Field Operations for WebGain, a privately held software company delivering Enterprise development tools. Later he joined Advanced Micro Devices where he became Executive Vice President, Chief Sales & Marketing Officer.

Mr. Henri Richard does not conduct any activities which may compete with ASBISc Enterprises Plc. He is not entered into Doubtful Debtors Registry. The legal grounds: (S) 5 section 1 point 22 of the Ordinance of the Finance Minister dated 19 October 2005, concerning current and periodical reports to be prepared by securities' issuers and Article 56 section 1 point 2 of the Act dated 29 July 2005, on public offering and conditions of listing financial instruments on an organized system of trade and on public companies.

There are no further disclosures to be made under Schedule Two (g) of the AIM Rules for Companies.


For further information, please contact:

ASBISc Enterprises Plc                          00 357 25 857 000

Costas Tziamalis, Investor Relations

Seymour Pierce Limited                              020 7107 8000
David Newton/ Parimal Kumar

M+G Magdalena Kolodziejczyk                       0048 22820 5053

 


Notes to Editors

ASBIS is based in Cyprus and specialises in the distribution of IT components, Blocks and Peripherals and a growing range of own brand IT and digital equipment. Established in 1995, its operations extend to Central and Eastern Europe, the Baltic States, the former Soviet Union, the Middle East and North Africa.

In addition to distributing products from IT industry manufacturers, the Group has also developed, and is selling, products via two private label brands, Prestigio, which supplies laptops, LCD TVs and monitors, digital media centres, storage devices and subsystems and Canyon which primarily targets retail chains with IT and consumer electronic peripherals and accessories such as networking products, MP3 players, speakers and other products. The Group also offers White Label products to enable its biggest local customers to create their own brand with generic and exclusive designs.

The Company listed on WSE in October 2007 and its ticker is ASB (ASBIS)
The Company listed on AIM in October 2006 and its ticker is ASB.L

January 02, 2008
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