Transaction in Own Shares & Total Voting Rights

RNS Number : 6156R

Empresaria Group PLC

15 June 2018

 

15 June 2018

Empresaria Group plc ("Empresaria" or the "Group")

Transaction in Own Shares & Total Voting Rights

Empresaria (AIM: EMR), the international specialist staffing group, announces that today, 15 June 2018, it purchased 40,820 of its ordinary shares of 5 pence each ("Ordinary Shares") at a price of 79 pence per Ordinary Share.

All of the Ordinary Shares purchased will be transferred to the Empresaria Employee Benefit Trust. The Company intends that Ordinary Shares transferred to the Empresaria Employee Benefit Trust will be used to satisfy the exercise of options vested under the Company's Long Term Incentive Plan.

Following the above purchase, the Company has 49,019,132 Ordinary Shares in issue, of which 315,820 are held by the Company as treasury shares until they are transferred to the Empresaria Employee Benefit Trust, which is expected to take place by the end of June 2018. Therefore, the total number of voting rights in the Company is 48,703,312.

Enquiries:

Empresaria Group plc Spencer Wreford, Chief Executive Officer Tim Anderson, Group Finance Director	via Alma PR
Arden Partners (Nominated Adviser and Broker) John Llewellyn-Lloyd / Steve Douglas / Ciaran Walsh	020 7614 5900
Alma PR (Financial PR) Rebecca Sanders-Hewett / Sam Modlin	020 8004 4217 [e-mail]

Notes for editors:

§ Empresaria Group plc is an international specialist staffing group with 18 brands operating in 20 countries across the globe including the UK, Germany, Japan, India, UAE, Indonesia, Chile, Australia, Thailand, Singapore, Finland, USA, New Zealand, China, Malaysia, Vietnam and the Philippines.

§ Empresaria offers temporary/contract and permanent staffing solutions as well as Offshore Recruitment Services in seven key sectors: Technical & Industrial, Aviation services, IT & Design, Professional services, Healthcare, Executive search and Retail.

§ Empresaria applies a multi brand, management equity philosophy and business model, with group company management teams holding significant equity in their own business.

§ Empresaria is listed on AIM under ticker EMR. For more information: empresaria.com

 

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