Kew Green Hotels selects Personal Group

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Personal Group Holdings PLC

17 December 2014

 

Press Release

17 December 2014

Personal Group Holdings plc

("the Company" or "the Group")

Kew Green Hotels selects Personal Group as benefits provider

Personal Group, a leading provider of employee benefits, employee related insurance products and financial services in the UK, is pleased to announce that Kew Green Hotels has partnered with Personal Group to launch "Just for You", a benefits programme for its 3,600 employees.

Kew Green Hotels operates high quality limited and full service branded hotels in prime locations throughout the UK.  Formed in September 2001 the Company now operates 55 hotels in key cities including London, Glasgow, Leeds, Liverpool, Milton Keynes and Reading.  Most of the hotels are operated under franchise agreements with some of the world's leading hotel brands including Holiday Inn, Crowne Plaza, Holiday Inn Express, Courtyard by Marriott and Ramada. 

Personal Group assisted the Company in devising and implementing a benefits programme through a series of one-to-one face-to-face meetings to tailor packages to individual employees.  Personal Group's platform offers over 8,000 retail discounts, travel discounts, an Employee Assistance Programme, and voluntary paid schemes such as hospital cash plans and death benefit. The scheme was launched across Kew Green Hotels' 55 hotels during December.

Sarah Fountain, Kew Green Hotels' Director of HR said: "The Company recognised the need for improved benefits across the organisation in order to retain our competitive edge.  We are very pleased with the unique package we have developed with Personal Group and we look forward to rewarding the hard work of our employees in the run up to Christmas."

Steve Mason, Business Development Director at Personal Group said: "We are delighted that Kew Green Hotels' has selected Personal Group to assist them in implementing the "Just for You" benefits programme. The Company operates high quality hotels and we are pleased to be working with Kew Green Hotels' to help them maintain their competitive edge by retaining and attracting talent.   We look forward to developing a lasting relationship with the company".

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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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