Transaction in Own Shares

RNS Number : 3753B

Empresaria Group PLC

07 October 2020

 

7 October 2020

Empresaria Group plc

("Empresaria" or the "Company")

Transaction in Own Shares

Empresaria, the international specialist staffing group, announces that further to its share buyback programme announced on 17 June 2020 ("Programme"), on 6 October 2020 it purchased 30,000 ordinary shares of £0.05 each in the Company ("Ordinary Shares") at a price of £0.43 per Ordinary Share.

All of the Ordinary Shares purchased under the Programme will be transferred to the Empresaria Employee Benefit Trust. The Company intends that Ordinary Shares transferred to the Empresaria Employee Benefit Trust will be used to satisfy the exercise of options vested under the Company's Long Term Incentive Plan.

Following the above purchase, the Company has 49,019,132 Ordinary Shares in issue, of which 310,000 are held by the Company as treasury shares until they are transferred to the Empresaria Employee Benefit Trust. Therefore, the total number of voting rights in the Company is 48,709,132.

The above figure of 48,709,132 may be used by shareholders as the denominator for the calculations by which they will determine if they are required to notify their interest in, or a change to their interest in, the Company under the FCA's Disclosure Guidance and Transparency Rules.

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Enquiries:

Empresaria Group plc Rhona Driggs, Chief Executive Officer Tim Anderson, Chief Financial Officer	via Alma PR
N+1 Singer (Nominated Adviser and Broker) Shaun Dobson / James Moat	020 7614 3000
Alma PR (Financial PR) Rebecca Sanders-Hewett Sam Modlin David Ison	020 3405 0205 [e-mail]

Notes for editors:

§ Empresaria Group plc is a global specialist staffing group offering temporary and contract recruitment, permanent recruitment and offshore recruitment services across 6 sectors: Professional, IT, Healthcare, Property, Construction & Engineering, Commercial and Offshore Recruitment Services.

§ Empresaria operates from locations across the world including 4 of the largest staffing markets of the US, Japan, UK and Germany along with a strong presence in Asia Pacific and Latin America.

§ Empresaria is listed on AIM under ticker EMR. For more information visit empresaria.com.

 

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