On August 25, 2016, the Board of Samsonite International S.A. announced that Mr. Miguel Kai Kwun Ko has resigned as an Independent Non-Executive Director of the company with effect from September 22, 2016 and elected Mr. Jerome Squire Griffith as a Director of the company with immediate effect and for a period expiring upon the holding of the annual general meeting of the Company to be held in 2018. Mr. Griffith, aged 58, recently served as the Chief Executive Officer, President and director of Tumi Holdings Inc. from April 2009 to August 2016.