Argus appoints Sean Watson to board

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Apr 02, 2015, 12:18 ET

LONDON, April 2, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Argus has appointed Sean Watson, a senior corporate lawyer and adviser, as a non-executive board director.

"We are glad to welcome Sean to the Argus board of directors. He has a wealth of experience in international business, corporate finance and on working on boards over the last four decades. Sean has worked on many acquisitions over his career, experience that is of particular use to Argus as we expand our reach and expertise to other commodity markets. We look forward to benefiting from his wide knowledge and corporate experience," Argus Media chairman and chief executive Adrian Binks said.

Sean qualified as a solicitor at Slaughter and May in 1972 and was invited to establish its Hong Kong office in 1974. Later, he became Cameron McKenna's senior corporate finance partner. He has served on many boards, including as a non-executive director of Informa for nine years and is currently chairman of global electronics company TT Electronics.

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Argus is an independent media organisation with more than 700 full time staff. It is headquartered in London and has offices in each of the world's principal commodity centres. Its main activities comprise publishing market reports containing price assessments, market commentary and news, and business intelligence reports that analyse market and industry trends.

More than half of Argus employees are commodity journalists who specialise in reporting news and price information relating to physical energy and related commodity markets. They operate according to a rigorous Editorial Code of Conduct and a compliance and ethics policy that align with best journalistic practice, including the avoidance of conflicts of interest.
Argus is a leading provider of data on prices and fundamentals, news, analysis, consultancy services and conferences for the global crude, oil products, natural gas, electricity, coal, emissions, bioenergy, fertilizer, petrochemical, metals and transportation industries. Data provided by Argus are widely used for indexation of physical trade. Companies, governments and international agencies use Argus information for analysis and planning purposes.

Argus has 20 offices globally, including London, Houston, Washington, New York, Calgary, Rio de Janeiro, Singapore, Dubai, Beijing, Tokyo, Sydney, Moscow, Astana and other key centres of the commodity industries. Argus was founded in 1970 and is a privately held UK-registered company.

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