Quarto Group announces Jessica Burley to Board as upcoming Non-Executive Director

– UK, London – Quarto (LSE:QRT), the world’s leading international illustrated non-fiction book publisher and distribution group, is pleased to announce the appointment of Jessica Burley as a non-executive director of the Company with effect from the date of the next General Meeting, which will be announced in due course.

Jessica is Global Chief Executive Officer for m/SIX the media and advertising agency joint venture between WPP’s GroupM and the leading UK independent creative agency CHI & Partners. Prior to this she held Director roles at companies including the National Magazine Company, where she was responsible for the company’s internet division, Hearst Digital and the company’s 22 magazine brands; Future Publishing Limited; Financial Times Business and Gruner and Jahr UK.

Jessica is a non-executive director at UK Mail Plc and has previously been a non-executive director at Jacques Vert Plc and TalkTalk Telecom Group Plc.

Tim Chadwick, Chairman of Quarto, said, “Jess brings further strength to the Board of Quarto. Her experience in the worlds of publishing, distribution and advertising will be of great help to Quarto as we seek to capitalise on the resilience of our businesses by developing further sales channels. While the impact of digital on the world of illustrated non-fiction is less than on the world of fiction and our digital revenues are not significant, it helps us future-proof the business to be able to call on the CEO of an agency which believes that digital thinking sits at the core of everything it does.”

About The Quarto Group

The Quarto Group (LSE: QRT) is the world’s leading international illustrated non-fiction book publisher and distribution group and is listed on the London Stock Exchange. Quarto has about 400 talented people in four distinct but complementary businesses – Quarto International Co-editions Group; Quarto Publishing Group USA;Quarto Publishing Group UK and Books & Gifts Direct, Australia & NZ.

The Group is well positioned in resilient segments of book publishing with rich reserves of Intellectual Property.  Quarto is uniquely positioned for growth as the industry adapts to new means of marketing, sales and routes to market. The Group’s headquarters are in London where the Company was founded in 1976.

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