30 March 2023
Staffline Group plc
("Staffline", the "Company" or the "Group")
Director / PDMR Shareholding and Total Voting Rights
Staffline (AIM: STAF), the recruitment and training group, announces that on 27 March 2023, the following individuals were awarded ordinary shares of 10p each in the Company ("Ordinary Shares") in relation to the proportion of their respective annual bonuses for the financial year ended 31 December 2022 payable in Ordinary Shares.
The Ordinary Shares awarded to PDMRs are set out in the table below.
Director/ PDMR |
Position |
Shares awarded |
Albert Ellis |
Chief Executive Officer |
72,884 |
Daniel Quint |
Chief Financial Officer |
35,837 |
Martina McKenzie |
MD Recruitment Ireland |
36,676 |
Frank Atkinson |
MD Recruitment GB |
36,676 |
Kenny Boyle |
MD PeoplePlus |
16,047 |
Accordingly, the Employee Benefit Trust ("EBT") is transferring to the above listed individuals a total of 198,120 Ordinary Shares. These Ordinary Shares are being transferred at an effective price of £0.3666 pence per Ordinary Share, based on the average closing mid-market price four business days immediately prior to the award.
Albert Ellis and Daniel Quint now hold 645,291 and 484,914 Ordinary Shares, respectively, representing 0.39% per cent. and 0.29% per cent. of the issued share capital of the Company.
Total Voting Rights
Following the transfer of the 198,120 Ordinary Shares from the EBT, the total number of Ordinary Shares in issue remains unchanged at 165,767,728 , of which 3,316,391 are now held by the EBT. The Company does not hold any shares in treasury, therefore the total number of Ordinary Shares carrying voting rights is 162,451,337 . This number may be used by shareholders as the denominator for the calculations by which they will determine if they are required to notify their interest in, or a change to their interests in, the Company under the FCA's Disclosure Guidance and Transparency Rules.
For further information, please contact:
Staffline Group plc Albert Ellis, Chief Executive Officer Daniel Quint, Chief Financial Officer |
via Vigo Consulting |
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Liberum (Nominated Adviser and Broker) Richard Lindley / William Hall / Lucas Bamber |
020 3100 2222 |
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Zeus (Joint Broker) David Foreman (Investment Banking) Nick Searle (Sales) |
020 3829 5000 |
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Vigo Consulting (Financial PR) Jeremy Garcia / Kate Kilgallen |
020 7390 0230 Staffline@vigoconsulting.com
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Market Abuse Regulation:
For the purposes of MAR, Article 2 of Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2016/1055 and the UK version of such implementing regulation, the person responsible for arranging for the release of this Announcement on behalf of the Company is Daniel Quint, Chief Financial Officer.
About Staffline - Recruitment, Training and Support
Enabling the Future of Work™
Staffline is the UK's market leading Recruitment and Training group. It has three divisions:
Recruitment GB
Staffline is a leading provider of flexible blue-collar workers, supplying c.31,000 staff per day on average from around 400 sites, across a wide range of industries including supermarkets, drinks, driving, food processing, logistics and manufacturing.
Recruitment Ireland
The Recruitment Ireland business is a leading end to end solutions provider operating across twenty industries, ten branch locations and ten onsite customer locations, supplying c.4,500 staff per day on average, and offering RPO, MSP, temporary and permanent solutions across the island of Ireland.
PeoplePlus Division
Staffline is the leading adult skills and training provider in the UK, delivering adult education, prison education and skills-based employability programmes across the country.
The Notification of Dealing Forms set out below are provided in accordance with the requirements of the EU Market Abuse Regulation.
Notification and public disclosure of transactions by persons discharging managerial responsibilities and persons closely associated with them.
Notification of a Transaction pursuant to Article 19(1) of Regulation (EU) No. 596/2014 |
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Details of the person discharging managerial responsibilities/person closely associated |
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a. |
Name |
Albert Ellis |
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2 |
Reason for notification |
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a. |
Position/Status |
Chief Executive Officer |
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b. |
Initial notification/ Amendment |
Initial |
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3 |
Details of the issuer, emission allowance market participant, auction platform, auctioneer or auction monitor |
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a. |
Name |
Staffline Group plc |
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b. |
LEI |
213800BVLF1BCOJUH828 |
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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 |
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a. |
Description of the financial instrument, type of instrument |
Ordinary Shares of 10p each
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b. |
Nature of the transaction |
Transfer of Ordinary Shares by Staffline Employee Benefit Trust
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c. |
Price(s) and volume(s) |
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d. |
Aggregated information - Aggregated Volume - Price |
N/A - single transaction
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e. |
Date of the transaction |
27 March 2023 |
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f. |
Place of the transaction |
Outside a trading venue
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Notification of a Transaction pursuant to Article 19(1) of Regulation (EU) No. 596/2014 |
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1 |
Details of the person discharging managerial responsibilities/person closely associated |
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a. |
Name |
Daniel Quint |
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2 |
Reason for notification |
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a. |
Position/Status |
Chief Financial Officer |
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b. |
Initial notification/ Amendment |
Initial |
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3 |
Details of the issuer, emission allowance market participant, auction platform, auctioneer or auction monitor |
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a. |
Name |
Staffline Group plc |
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b. |
LEI |
213800BVLF1BCOJUH828 |
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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 |
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a. |
Description of the financial instrument, type of instrument |
Ordinary Shares of 10p each
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b. |
Nature of the transaction |
Transfer of Ordinary Shares by Staffline Employee Benefit Trust
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c. |
Price(s) and volume(s) |
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d. |
Aggregated information - Aggregated Volume - Price |
N/A - single transaction
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e. |
Date of the transaction |
27 March 2023
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f. |
Place of the transaction |
Outside a trading venue
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Notification of a Transaction pursuant to Article 19(1) of Regulation (EU) No. 596/2014 |
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1 |
Details of the person discharging managerial responsibilities/person closely associated |
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a. |
Name |
Martina McKenzie |
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2 |
Reason for notification |
MD Recruitment Ireland |
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a. |
Position/Status |
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b. |
Initial notification/ Amendment |
Initial |
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3 |
Details of the issuer, emission allowance market participant, auction platform, auctioneer or auction monitor |
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a. |
Name |
Staffline Group plc |
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b. |
LEI |
213800BVLF1BCOJUH828 |
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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 |
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a. |
Description of the financial instrument, type of instrument |
Ordinary Shares of 10p each
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b. |
Nature of the transaction |
Transfer of Ordinary Shares by Staffline Employee Benefit Trust
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c. |
Price(s) and volume(s) |
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d. |
Aggregated information - Aggregated Volume - Price |
N/A - single transaction
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e. |
Date of the transaction |
27 March 2023
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f. |
Place of the transaction |
Outside a trading venue
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Notification of a Transaction pursuant to Article 19(1) of Regulation (EU) No. 596/2014 |
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1 |
Details of the person discharging managerial responsibilities/person closely associated |
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a. |
Name |
Frank Atkinson |
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2 |
Reason for notification |
MD Recruitment GB |
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a. |
Position/Status |
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b. |
Initial notification/ Amendment |
Initial |
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3 |
Details of the issuer, emission allowance market participant, auction platform, auctioneer or auction monitor |
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a. |
Name |
Staffline Group plc |
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b. |
LEI |
213800BVLF1BCOJUH828 |
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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 |
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a. |
Description of the financial instrument, type of instrument |
Ordinary Shares of 10p each
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b. |
Nature of the transaction |
Transfer of Ordinary Shares by Staffline Employee Benefit Trust
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c. |
Price(s) and volume(s) |
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d. |
Aggregated information - Aggregated Volume - Price |
N/A - single transaction
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e. |
Date of the transaction |
27 March 2023
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f. |
Place of the transaction |
Outside a trading venue
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Notification of a Transaction pursuant to Article 19(1) of Regulation (EU) No. 596/2014 |
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1 |
Details of the person discharging managerial responsibilities/person closely associated |
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a. |
Name |
Kenny Boyle |
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2 |
Reason for notification |
MD PeoplePlus |
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a. |
Position/Status |
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b. |
Initial notification/ Amendment |
Initial |
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3 |
Details of the issuer, emission allowance market participant, auction platform, auctioneer or auction monitor |
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a. |
Name |
Staffline Group plc |
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b. |
LEI |
213800BVLF1BCOJUH828 |
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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 |
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a. |
Description of the financial instrument, type of instrument |
Ordinary Shares of 10p each
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b. |
Nature of the transaction |
Transfer of Ordinary Shares by Staffline Employee Benefit Trust
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c. |
Price(s) and volume(s) |
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d. |
Aggregated information - Aggregated Volume - Price |
N/A - single transaction
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e. |
Date of the transaction |
27 March 2023
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f. |
Place of the transaction |
Outside a trading venue
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