Board Change

RNS Number : 0217R

Personal Group Holdings PLC

08 September 2014

 



Press Release

8 September 2014

Personal Group Holdings plc

("the Company" or "the Group")

Board Change

Personal Group, a leading provider of employee benefits, employee related insurance products and financial services in the UK, today announces that Ken Rooney, Director and Deputy Chairman, intends to retire from his position as an Executive Director in June 2015. He will however remain on the Board of the Group in the capacity of a Non-Executive Director from this date through to June 2017.

Mark Scanlon, Chief Executive of Personal Group, commented: "Ken has played an invaluable role in the development of the Group over the past 15 years, and the Board is delighted that he has agreed to continue in a non-executive capacity. In the course of the last 3 years Ken has ensured a seamless transition of responsibilities and was a huge support to me as I took on my role as Chief Executive. I am delighted that his knowledge of Personal Group together with his 40 years' experience in financial services will continue to be of considerable benefit to the Group through the coming years." 

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For more information please contact:

Personal Group Holdings Plc
Mark Scanlon, Chief Executive	[phone]

Cenkos Securities Plc
Max Hartley (Nomad) Russell Kerr (Sales)	[phone]

Media enquiries:

Abchurch Communications
Quincy Allan / Alistair de Kare-Silver	[phone]
[e-mail]	www.abchurch-group.com

Notes to editors:

With a 30 year track record of looking after its customers' employees, Personal Group Holdings Plc (AIM: PGH) is a leading provider of employee benefits and employee related insurance products, offering benefits programmes to over 2 million employees across the UK.

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 offering compelling to blue chip clients across the UK as a way of attracting, retaining and motivating employees.  Personal Group's benefits offer employees an effective way of making their pay-packet stretch further.  The Group tailors its packages to include insurance products such as hospital and convalescence plans, death benefit and income protection plans, as well as lifestyle benefits such as holiday and retail discounts, health and wellbeing benefits and a range of tax efficient benefits.

In March 2014, the Group acquired Lets Connect, a leader in the home technology salary sacrifice market which focuses on large enterprises in the private and public sector. 

Personal Group has a strong client base across a range of sectors including transport, where it works with the likes of Network Rail and Stagecoach, healthcare, where clients include Priory Group and Spire Healthcare and logistics, with companies such as TNT Express. The Group also has a strong presence in food manufacturing and service and clients include 2 Sisters Food Group and Young's Seafood.

With over 550 clients the Group has grown considerably and provides engaging and effective benefits packages across a breadth of sectors.  

For further information, go to www.personal-group.com.

 

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