Kingfisher plc announced that Bhavesh Mistry will join its Board as Chief Financial Officer. Bhavesh will succeed current CFO Bernard Bot, who will retire to further pursue his non-executive career. Bernard's leaving date is to be confirmed but will be no earlier than January 2025 and he will support the transition before his retirement.

An exact start date for Bhavesh will be announced in due course. Bhavesh brings extensive finance and retail experience gained in senior roles across a range of listed businesses. He is currently CFO of British Land, where he has served in the role since 2021, and was Deputy CFO of Tesco from 2018 to 2021.

Before that he held senior finance positions over more than two decades at a range of major companies including Whitbread, Virgin Media and Anheuser-Busch InBev. Bhavesh will join Kingfisher's Board and become a member of Kingfisher's Group Executive. He will be based at Kingfisher's head office in Paddington, London.