EKF Diagnostics Holdings plc (AIM: EKF), the point-of-care business, announces that Christopher Mills has been appointed as Non-Executive Chairman with immediate effect.

Christopher is Chief Executive and the sole shareholder of Harwood Capital Management Limited and founder of JO Hambro. He is a fund manager of Oryx International Growth Fund Limited and North Atlantic Smaller Companies Investment Trust PLC and has been and continues to serve as a director of many public and private companies.

Christopher Harwood Bernard Mills, aged 63, is interested in 81,200,000 ordinary shares, being 19.24 per cent. of the Company’s issued share capital. 46,200,000 ordinary shares are held by North Atlantic Smaller Companies Investment Trust PLC and 35,000,000 ordinary shares are held by Oryx International Growth Fund Limited. Harwood Capital LLP is investment manager to North Atlantic Smaller Companies Investment Trust plc and investment adviser to Oryx International Growth Fund Limited. Harwood Capital LLP is a limited liability partnership of which Christopher Mills is a partner and Chief Investment Officer.

A further announcement containing the disclosures in accordance with the AIM Rules will be made in due course.