DFS Furniture plc announced the appointment of Ms Gill Barr as an Independent Non-Executive director of the Company effective from 1st March 2023. Ms Barr will also be appointed as the Chair of the Remuneration Committee from that date and as a member of the Audit and Nomination Committees. Ms Barr is currently a Non-Executive Director of Wincanton PLC, N Brown Plc and Paypoint Plc.

Ms Barr was previously a Non-Executive Director of McCarthy & Stone from 2019 until it delisted in 2021. Prior to that she was a Non-Executive Director of Morgan Sindall Plc from 2004 to 2012. Her executive career focus has been on strategy and customer centric business development. She was Group Marketing Director of The Co-operative Group from 2011 to 2014 and was previously Marketing Director of John Lewis. She spent seven years at Kingfisher Plc where she held a variety of senior marketing and business development roles.