Senior management changes

Bill Whiting will retire from the board of B&Q in February 2005. He will step down from his current position as Chief Executive at the end of the current financial year on 31 January 2004 to take up a part-time executive role working on the development of the Group's major brands. He will be succeeded as Chief Executive by Rob Cissell who is promoted from his current position as B&Q’s Managing Director - Commercial. Cissell has been with Kingfisher for nine years. Before moving to B&Q at the beginning of this year he was Managing Director of Comet.