Issue of Options under the LTIP

RNS Number : 0635L

Personal Group Holdings PLC

06 January 2016

 

Press Release

6 January 2016

Personal Group Holdings plc

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

Issue of Options 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 issue of share options 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 interim statement for the period ended 30 June 2015.

The Company has awarded Mike Dugdale, the Company's Chief Financial Officer, an option over 35,771 Ordinary Shares under the Company's LTIP which can be exercised in the next year at an exercise value of nil.  The award was subject to the achievement of certain performance conditions in relation to the increase in the market capitalisation of the Company.

The above does not change Mike Dugdale's shareholding and so he retains an interest in 17,053 ordinary shares of 5p each representing 0.056% of the issued ordinary share capital of the Company. This includes Mr Dugdale's wife's holding of 2,930 ordinary shares.

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For more information please contact:

Personal Group Holdings Plc
Mark Scanlon - Chief Executive Mike Dugdale - Chief Financial Officer	[phone]

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

Media enquiries:

Abchurch Communications
Quincy Allan / Alex Shaw	[phone]
[e-mail]	www.abchurch-group.com

Notes to Editors

With over 30 years' experience 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.  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.

Personal Group can also supply home technology via salary sacrifice through its subsidiary Let's Connect.  Offering the latest iPads and other tablets, home computers and laptops, smart phones and smart TVs is a highly engaging benefit from which both the employer and employee can profit. In April 2015 the Group established its own Mobile Virtual Network Operator (MVNO) called Personal Group Mobile Ltd. which was achieved through the acquisition of the assets of shebang Technologies Ltd. This means that home technology, including handsets and airtime, can be provided via salary sacrifice with a reduction of c10-47% on costs to its client's employees.

Personal Group has a strong client base across a range of sectors including transport, where it works with the likes of Network Rail, Stagecoach and EYMS Group Ltd, and healthcare, where clients include Four Seasons Health Care, Priory Group and Spire Healthcare. The Group also covers logistics, with companies such as TNT Express and Bibby, and motoring with Manheim and JCT600 as clients. In addition 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 520 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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