The board of directors of China Mengniu Dairy Company Limited announced that with effect from 1 April 2016, Mr. Finn S. Hansen has tendered his resignation as a non-executive director of the company and a member of the strategy and development committee of the company to commit to his other personal developments; and Mr. Christian Neu has tendered his resignation as a non-executive Director and a member of the Strategy and Development Committee to focus on other work assignments and commit to his other personal developments. The Board also announced the appointment of Mr. Tim Ørting Jørgensen and Mr. Filip Kegels as non-executive Directors and members of the Strategy and Development Committee with effect from 1 April 2016. Tim Ørting Jørgensen was a non-executive Director of the Company during the period from July 2012 to September 2013.

Mr. Jørgensen graduated from Copenhagen Business School in 1991 with a Master of Economics degree, specialising in international strategy and marketing. He joined Arla Foods amba in 1991 and has held several management positions within Arla's international business group, including a three- year position in the Middle East and a three-year position in Brazil. In 2005, he became the business group director for Arla's Danish division and in 2007, he was appointed as executive vice president, with the overall responsibility for Arla's international activities outside Scandinavia and the United Kingdom.

In 2012, he was appointed to lead Arla's German/Dutch business group, with the clear objective of establishing Arla as a leading dairy company in Germany through mergers and acquisitions. Mr. Filip Kegels has 30 years of experience in the management of fast-moving consumer goods with outstanding performance particularly in sales, marketing, integrated management and international business management. He joined Danone SA, a multi-national corporation and global leader in food products, including fresh dairy productsand other health and nutrition food products and waters in 1987, where he was initially engaged in sales and marketing activities in France and later became the general manager of various local and regional companies of Danone SA.

From December 2014 to July 2015, Mr. Kegels was a director of Centrale Danone. Mr. Kegels is currently a director of Inner Mongolia Mengniu Danone Dairy Co. Ltd.