JPMorgan European Smaller Companies Trust plc announced that as part of the Board's succession planning Carolan Dobson will step down as Chairman and a Director at the Annual General Meeting in 2019. The company also announced that Marc van Gelder has agreed to succeed Carolan.

The Board of the company has decided to pay an interim dividend of 1.2 pence (2017: 1.2 pence) per share which will be paid on January 18, 2019 to shareholders on the register as at December 14, 2018 (the ex-dividend date will be December 13, 2018).