Coats Group plc announced that Hongyan Echo Lu, Independent Non-Executive Director, will assume the role of Chair of the Remuneration Committee with effect from 1 May 2021. Echo has been a member of the Company's Remuneration Committee since joining the Coats Group plc Board as a Non-Executive Director on 1 December 2017. Echo will succeed David Gosnell as Chair of the Remuneration Committee. David will step down as Chair and as a member of the Remuneration Committee and as a member of the Audit and Risk Committee with effect from 1 May 2021. This is ahead of his appointment as Chair of the Board of Coats Group plc, which is due to take effect at the conclusion of the Company's Annual General Meeting scheduled for 19 May 2021. It is also announced that Nicholas Bull, Independent Non-Executive Director and Senior Independent Director, will join the Remuneration Committee on 1 May 2021.