PDMR purchase of shares

RNS Number : 5751Y

Personal Group Holdings PLC

02 January 2020

 

Press Release

2 January 2020

Personal Group Holdings plc

("the Company")

PDMR purchase of shares

Personal Group Holdings Plc operates an Inland Revenue approved Employee Share Ownership Plan which allows employees and directors the opportunity to purchase ordinary shares of 5p each in the Company ("Shares") currently held by Personal Group Trustees Limited.

The latest allocation period ended on 31 December 2019 and the following PDMRs have acquired Shares on 2 January 2020 as follows:

Director	Price paid per Share	Shares purchased	Total number of ordinary shares held following transaction	% of Company's issued share capital
Mr K Rooney	335.00p	362	3,060	0.010
Mr M Dugdale	335.00p	100	41,453*	0.133
Mrs D Frost	335.00p	27	300,069	0.961
Mr A Doody	335.00p	30	905	0.003
Mr A Lothian	335.00p	20	38,112**	0.122
Mrs S Mace	335.00p	67	2,011	0.006
Mrs M Darby-Walker	335.00p	268	268	0.001

* This figure includes Mr Dugdale's wife's holding of 18,069 ordinary shares.

** This figure includes Mr Lothian's wife's holding of 17,570 ordinary shares.

Under the Rules of the plan, the share price at which the shares are purchased is the lower of the mid-market value at the start and end of the relevant accumulation period.

1	Details of the person discharging managerial responsibilities / person closely associated
a)	Name	1. Ken Rooney 2. Mike Dugdale 3. Deborah Frost 4. Ashley Doody 5. Andrew Lothian 6. Sarah Mace 7. Maria Darby-Walker
2	Reason for the notification
a)	Position/status	1. Ken Rooney - Director / PDMR 2. Mike Dugdale - Director / PDMR 3. Deborah Frost - Director / PDMR 4. Ashley Doody - PDMR 5. Andrew Lothian - Director / PDMR 6. Sarah Mace - PDMR 7. Maria Darby-Walker - Director / PDMR
b)	Initial notification / Amendment	Initial
3	Details of the issuer, emission allowance market participant, auction platform, auctioneer or auction monitor
a)	Name	Personal Group Holdings Plc
b)	LEI	213800TN8BH2YYWAH345
4	Details of the transaction(s): section to be repeated for (i) each type of instrument; (ii) each type of transaction; (iii) each date; and (iv) each place where transactions have been conducted
a)	Description of the financial instrument, type of instrument Identification code	Ordinary shares of 5p each ISIN: GB0002760279
b)	Nature of the transaction	Purchase of shares pursuant to Personal Group Share Investment Plan
c)	Price(s) and volume(s)	Director/PDMR Price(s) Volume(s) 1. K Rooney 2. M Dugdale 3. D Frost 4. A Doody 5. A Lothian 6. S Mace 7. M Darby-Walker 335.00p 335.00p 335.00p 335.00p 335.00p 335.00p 335.00p 362 100 27 30 20 67 268
d)	Aggregated information - Aggregated volume - Price	874 shares £3.35 per share
e)	Date of the transaction	2 January 2020
f)	Place of the transaction	Outside a trading venue

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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:

Hudson Sandler
Nick Lyon / Lucy Wollam	[phone]
[e-mail]

Notes to Editors

Personal Group Holdings Plc (AIM: PGH) is a technology enabled employee services business, working with employers to drive productivity though better employee engagement and a more motivated workforce. With over 30 years' experience, the Company provides employee benefits and services to a large number of employees across the UK.

Personal Group's offer comprises in-house services, including employee insurance products (hospital, convalescence plans and death benefit), the provision of home technology via salary sacrifice (iPads, computers, laptops, smart phones and smart TVs), the provision of e-payslips, and pay and reward consulting via Innecto, the leading independent UK consultancy acquired in 2019. Third party services include retail discounts, employee assistance programmes, wellbeing programmes and salary sacrifice cars and bikes.

The product offer is provided via the Company's proprietary technology platform, Hapi. The platform is intuitive, designed primarily for app deployment and also accessible via web and tablet, driving better engagement, communication and value recognition. Hapi is flexible and can quickly integrate additional services, such as existing employee services and partner platforms. Hapi is a digital SaaS product.

Through technology and select acquisitions, the Company has grown its addressable market to the majority of the working population in the UK; including 15.6m SME employees targeted via its partnership with Sage, the UK's largest software company.  

Personal Group's innovative approach to using technology to deliver its programmes, in combination with its face-to-face method of communicating with employees, delivers a compelling offer to blue-chip clients across the UK as a way of attracting, retaining and motivating employees.  The acquisition of Innecto in February 2019 allows Personal Group to engage with clients earlier in their thinking around Pay and Reward, and to interact with a new base of blue-chip and fast growth clients typically at HR Director and CEO level.

Personal Group has a strong client base across a range of sectors including passenger transport, healthcare, logistics and food manufacturing. Clients include: Stagecoach, Four Seasons Health Care, DHL, and 2 Sisters Food Group.   

For further information, please see www.personalgroup.com

 

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