Appointment of Executive Director

RNS Number : 9486N

Personal Group Holdings PLC

14 August 2017

 

Press Release

14 August 2017

Personal Group Holdings plc

("Personal Group", the "Company" or the "Group")

Appointment of Executive Director

Personal Group Holdings Plc (AIM: PGH), a leading provider of employee services in the UK, is pleased to announce the appointment of Andy Lothian, Managing Director of Personal Group Benefits, to the Board as an Executive Director of the Company, with immediate effect. The appointment has received FCA approval.

Andy has worked for Personal Group for 18 years. He joined as a sales executive in 1998, before being promoted to Sales Director for the insurance business in 2004 and was subsequently appointed Managing Director of Personal Group Benefits.

Mark Winlow, Chairman of Personal Group, commented:

"We are delighted to welcome Andy to the Board; his detailed knowledge of the Group through numerous changes over nearly 20 years brings with it unparalleled insight into the day to day running of our insurance business and the opportunities and challenges that it faces. Having run the sales teams for over a decade we are looking forward to Andy's input to the Group's strategy going forward."

Directorships and Partnerships held by Andy Lothian, aged 46, in the last five years:

Existing	Past
Personal Group Benefits Limited	None

Andy has a total interest in 37,773 ordinary shares in the Company, which includes 17,570 ordinary shares held by his wife. 

There are no other matters required to be disclosed in relation to Schedule 2 paragraph (g) and (i) of the AIM Rules.

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 For more information please contact:

Personal Group Holdings Plc
Mark Scanlon		[phone]
Philip Dennis (IR)	[e-mail]		[phone]
Cenkos Securities Plc
Max Hartley / Stephen Keys (Nomad)		[phone]
Russell Kerr (Sales)

 Media enquiries:

Hudson Sandler
Nick Lyon / Sophie Lister/ Lucy Wollam	[phone]
[e-mail]

Notes to Editors:

Personal Group Holdings Plc (AIM: PGH) is a technology enabled employee services business, working with employers to drive productivity though better employee engagement and a more motivated workforce. With over 30 years' experience, the Company provides employee benefits and services to over 2 million employees across the UK.

Personal Group's offer comprises 8,000 in-house and third party products and services, from c.60 supply lines. In-house services include employee insurance products (hospital, convalescence plans and death benefit) and the provision of home technology via salary sacrifice (iPads, computers, laptops, smart phones and smart TVs). Third party services include retail discounts, e-payslips, employee assistance programmes, wellbeing programmes and salary sacrifice cars and bikes.

The offer is provided via the Company's proprietary technology platform, Hapi. The platform is intuitive,  designed primarily for app deployment and also accessible via web and tablet,driving better engagement, communication and value recognition. Hapi is flexible and can quickly integrate additional services, such as existing employee services and partner platforms. Hapi is a SaaS product.

Through technology and select acquisitions, the Company has grown its addressable market from 6m to over30m UK employees; including 15.6m SME employees targeted via its partnership with Sage, the UK's largest software company.  

Personal Group's innovative approach to using technology to deliver its programmes, combined with its face-to-face method of communicating with employees, makes its offer compelling to blue chip clients across the UK as a way of attracting, retaining and motivating employees. 

Personal Group has a strong client base across a range of sectors including passenger transport, healthcare, logistics and food manufacturing. Clients include: Stagecoach, Four Seasons Health Care, Priory Group, Spire Healthcare, Bibby, 2 Sisters Food Group and Young's Seafood.   

For further information, please see www.personalgroup.com

 

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