New Member of Management Board Roto Smeets Group NV

The Supervisory Board of Roto Smeets Group NV, has the intention of appointing Ir B.J.W. (Bernard) van der Heijden (b. 1955) as a member of the Management Board of Roto Smeets Group NV as of 1 November 2009. As member of the Management Board and Chief Operating Officer (COO) he will be primarily responsible for the Roto Smeets Group printing plants. The agreed remuneration fits within the parameters of the policy approved by the General Shareholders' Meeting.

Mr Van der Heijden has more than 25 years' experience in the media industry and has worked earlier for the Roto Smeets Group (when it was still called Roto Smeets De Boer) as director of NDI (Roto Smeets Deventer), NBI (Smeets Offset Den Bosch) and Roto Smeetsí international marketing and sales organisation.

In 1999 he started to work for Koninklijke Wegener NV as director of Wegener Grafische Groep and as publisher of the newspapers Utrechts Nieuwsblad/Haagsche Courant. In recent years he has occupied the post of director/publisher at AD NieuwsMedia, taking the lead in a complex series of mergers in the newspaper business.

Mr Van der Heijden holds an engineering degree in business administration from the Technical University, Eindhoven, and is - as of 30 October 2009 - a Registered Marketer (RM). At the start of his career as an independent business consultant he carried through a number of reorganisation and change management projects for clients including DSM, VNU, Philips and Roto Smeets.

The Supervisory Board has chosen Mr Van der Heijden for his knowledge and experience in the graphics media industry and his experience in change management. The Board regards this as vital to the future development of the Roto Smeets Group.

The Central Works Council reacted positively to the request for its advice on the decision to appoint Mr Van der Heijden.

Mr Van der Heijden will introduce himself further to the next Shareholdersí Meeting. His full résumé can be found on the corporate website, www.rotosmeetsgroup.com.

Deventer, 20 October 2009

Roto Smeets Group
Management Board

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