Transaction in Own Shares

Empresaria Group PLC

16 May 2023

 

16 May 2023

Empresaria Group plc

("Empresaria" or the "Company")

Transaction in Own Shares

Empresaria, the global specialist staffing group, announces that further to its share buyback programme announced on 17 June 2020 ("Programme"), on 15 May 2023 it purchased 17,132 ordinary shares of £0.05 each in the Company ("Ordinary Shares") at a price of £0.62 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 49,853,001 Ordinary Shares in issue, of which 200,553 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 49,652,448.

The above figure of 49,652,448 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
Singer Capital Markets (Nominated Adviser and Joint Broker) Shaun Dobson / James Moat	020 7496 3000
Cenkos Securities plc (Joint Broker) Katy Birkin / Charlie Combe (Corporate Finance) Michael Johnson / Jasper Berry (Sales)	020 7397 8900
Alma PR (Financial PR) Sam Modlin / Pippa Crabtree / Hilary Buchanan	020 3405 0205 [e-mail]

Notes for editors:

§ Empresaria Group plc is a global specialist staffing group.  We are driven by our purpose to positively impact the lives of people, while delivering exceptional talent to our clients globally.  We offer temporary and contract recruitment, permanent recruitment and offshore services across six sectors: Professional, IT, Healthcare, Property, Construction & Engineering, Commercial and Offshore Services.

§ Empresaria is structured in four regions (UK & Europe, APAC, Americas and Offshore Services) and operates from locations across the world including the four largest staffing markets of the US, Japan, UK and Germany along with a strong presence elsewhere in Asia Pacific and Latin America.

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

 

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