Games Workshop is pleased to announce the appointment of Randal Casson (age 55) to the Board as Non-Executive Director of the Company with effect from 1 July 2022.  Randal will assume the role of Chair of the Audit and Risk Committee from this date, taking over from Chair of Board, Elaine O’Donnell, who has been covering this position since November 2021 on an interim basis, pending conclusion of this recruitment process. Randal will also become a member of both the Remuneration and Nomination Committees, from 1 July 2022.

Randal has 35 years’ experience as a chartered accountant and has been an audit partner at PwC for the past 22 years. He will retire from PwC on 30 June 2022.

There are no further disclosures required in respect of this appointment under LR.9.6.13.

Games Workshop has received a notification of a change in a major shareholding.  This can be downloaded as a pdf here.

Games Workshop has released a director share dealing notification. This can be downloaded as a pdf here.

Follow the link to see the 2021 annual report presentation. It can be downloaded here.

As at the date of this announcement the Company had 32,776,196 issued ordinary shares of 5 pence each admitted to trading.  Each ordinary share carries the right to one vote in relation to all circumstances at general meetings of the Company.  The Company does not hold any ordinary shares in Treasury.

The above figure may be used by shareholders and others with notification obligations as their denominator for the calculations by which they will determine if they are required to notify their interest in, or a change to their interest in, the Company under the Disclosure and Transparency Rules.

Follow the link to see the 2020 annual report presentation. It can be downloaded here.

Games Workshop and Paulson Games are pleased to announce the settlement of the copyright litigation commenced by Games Workshop in federal court in Chicago.  Paulson Games and Games Workshop have agreed on the range of products Paulson Games is permitted to sell without violating Games Workshop’s claimed rights in its Warhammer 40,000 characters and have agreed to terminate the litigation between them.  Games Workshop’s case against Chapterhouse Studios continues.