Caring Homes Group Partners with Personal Group

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Personal Group Holdings PLC

21 November 2014

 



Press Release

21 November 2014

Personal Group Holdings plc

("the Company" or "the Group")

Caring Homes Group Partners with Personal Group

Caring Homes Group, in partnership with the Personal Group, have launched 'Advantages' - a voluntary employee benefits package offering both on and off-line retail discounts to nearly 5,000 employees across the UK and Jersey.

Caring Homes Group is one of the most respected care home operators in the United Kingdom, providing quality accredited, award winning residential, nursing and specialist dementia care to elderly people, and award winning person centred services for people with learning disabilities and additional health and social care needs through Consensus - its Specialist Services division.

Martin Gash - Group Human Resources Director at Caring Homes Group said: "Operating in a competitive employee retention and attraction environment, Caring Homes Group wanted to offer their employees a flexible package of voluntary benefits, providing the widest range of selectable discounted high street products and services, and in good time for them to be able to take advantage in the run up to the holiday season".

Personal Group's comprehensive on-line and off-line platforms offer over 8,000 retail discounts,  and the scheme was launched across Caring Homes Group's 132 homes, services and head office locations during November, by a combination of face to face group presentations, one-to-one meetings and written communications.

Steve Mason - Business Development Director at Personal Group said: "We are thrilled to be working with Caring Homes Group to provide their programme.  It shows our continued commitment to the care sector where we are considered the provider of choice.  We know Caring Homes Group has exceptionally high standards and we are pleased that we can meet them. In the first two weeks of roll out we have achieved 25% take-up which is great and a testament to the power of meeting with people face-to-face".

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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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