LETTER FROM GUY HANDS:

EMI APPOINTS CHIEF EXECUTIVE OF RECORDED MUSIC

Dear all

I am delighted to announce the appointment of Elio Leoni-Sceti as Chief Executive of EMI Music.

Elio joins us from Reckitt Benckiser, the global consumer brands company, where he has been a key player in its highly successful strategy of growth through innovation and brand equity building. For the last two years he has been leading its growing European business which now has sales of