Issue of Equity under the LTIP

RNS Number : 2469Y

Personal Group Holdings PLC

28 November 2014

 



Press Release

28 November 2014

Personal Group Holdings plc

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

Issue of Equity under the LTIP

Personal Group Holdings Plc (AIM: PGH), a leading provider of employee benefits, employee related insurance products and financial services in the UK, announces the allotment of shares in relation to the Company's Long Term Incentive Plan ("LTIP").

As announced on 18 December 2012, the Company stated that it had implemented an LTIP to reward directors and certain other senior employees in a way that aligns the interests of LTIP participants with the interests of shareholders, as well as with the Group's long-term strategic plan. Details of this are disclosed in the Group's annual report and accounts for the year ended 31 December 2013.

Accordingly, the Company has allotted a total of 173,239 new ordinary shares of 5p each ("New Ordinary Shares") for nil consideration to certain employees and Mark Scanlon, in connection with awards made in 2012 which have crystallised under the Company's LTIP.  Application will be made for the New Ordinary Shares to be admitted to trading on AIM ("Admission") and it is expected that Admission will take place on 4 December 2014.

As part of the award, Mark Scanlon, the Company's Chief Executive, has been awarded 150,643 of the New Ordinary Shares under the Company's LTIP which have now vested.  The award was subject to the achievement of certain performance conditions in relation to the increase in the market capitalisation of the Company.

Following Admission, Mark Scanlon will be interested in 152,403 ordinary shares of 5p each representing 0.50% of the issued ordinary share capital of the Company.

Following Admission, the Company will have 30,320,851 ordinary shares in issue.  The Company does not hold any ordinary shares in treasury.  Therefore the total number of ordinary shares in the Company with voting rights is 30,320,851.

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For more information please contact:

Personal Group Holdings Plc
Mike Dugdale, Chief Financial Officer	[phone]

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

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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