Plumbe’s departure was announced today at the same time as finance chief Martin Beer’s resignation, a trimming of Braemar’s executive board and the promotion of David Moorhouse CBE to chairman. 

Kidwell said: “As of the AGM, Johnny will step down from the board. He is retiring but he has a lot of things he wants to do.”

He adds that following the success of last year’s merger between Braemar and ACM, Plumbe is getting what he wanted and “going out on a high”.

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