Beston Global Food Company Limited announced the appointment of Ms Joanna Andrew as a Non-Executive Director of the Company effective from 7 December 2020. She will replace Ms Catherine Cooper on the Board who is stepping down to have more time available to spend on personal family matters. Joanna is a practicing lawyer with a successful South Australian Commercial law firm and specialises in the areas of agriculture and logistics. Joanna is currently Chair, South Australian Produce Market Limited and was formerly Chair of Wine Grape Growers Australia and Chair of their Audit, Finance and Risk Committee. Joanna will serve as a member of the Board's Audit and Risk Committee and Remuneration and Nomination Committee. Mr. Jim Kouts has also advised that he will withdraw his nomination for Director candidacy at the adjourned AGM and will step down from the Board as at 31 December, 2020. The Chairman advised that the Company was undertaking normal due diligence processes on a suitable candidate to replace Mr. Kouts, which will also take into consideration the Board's succession objectives. In announcing these changes, Dr. Sexton advised that Beston, in previous communications with Chinese shareholder Kunteng Pte Ltd, had advised that it was willing to support Mr. Yuan Ma in joining the Board of Beston as a Director, subject to the normal due diligence (background verifications, police checks, etc). This support was confirmed in the notice on the AGM Proxy Form that the Chairman of Beston would vote any undirected proxies in favour of his election.