Vianet Group plc maintained interim dividend at 1.70 pence per share for the six months ended September 30, 2015 against 1.70 pence per share last year, payable on February 2, 2016 to shareholders on the register as at December 18, 2015.

Having recently been appointed as Chairman of Booker, and with other commitments including being senior NED at Mitchells & Butler, Stewart Gilliland believes that this is an appropriate time to inform the Board that he will retire from the Board on December 31, 2015. At the same time, now that James W Dickson no longer has executive responsibility for VFS, it has been agreed that James W Dickson should complete the transition from Executive to Non-Executive Chairman with effect from January 1, 2016.