Group chief executive Malcolm Lane-Ley said the HSPG board had been expanded to improve communications throughout all of the group's companies.

The board will now meet under the newly formed executive committee, and will include Lane-Ley, finance director Andrew Pearse, and the managing directors of all of the group's companies: Savory Paper, Contract Paper, Trade Paper and Precision Publishing Papers.

Additionally the directors of marketing, operations and commercial print and business papers will also be included.

Lane-Ley said the pre-vious board was small, and the new structure would become the strategic management forum within HSPG.