Transaction in Own Shares & Total Voting Rights

Staffline Group PLC

02 August 2023

 

THIS ANNOUNCEMENT CONTAINS INSIDE INFORMATION AS STIPULATED UNDER THE MARKET ABUSE REGULATION (EU NO. 596/2014) AS IT FORMS PART OF UK DOMESTIC LAW BY VIRTUE OF THE EUROPEAN UNION (WITHDRAWAL) ACT 2018 ("MAR").

2 August 2023

Staffline Group plc

("Staffline" or the "Company")

Transaction in Own Shares

and

Total Voting Rights

The Company announces that in accordance with the authority given by its shareholders at its Annual General Meeting on 12 June 2023 and pursuant to the Company's share buy-back announced on 1 August 2023, it has purchased for cancellation through Liberum Capital Limited, the following ordinary shares in the capital of the Company ("Ordinary Shares"):

Date of purchase:	1 August 2023
Aggregate number of ordinary shares purchased:	87,511
Trading venue:	London Stock Exchange
Lowest price paid per share (p):	26.25p
Highest price paid per share (p):	27.0p
Average price paid per share (p):	26.64p

Following cancellation of the above Ordinary Shares, the Company will have 165,680,217 Ordinary Shares in issue.  No Ordinary Shares are held in treasury.

This number represents the total voting rights in the Company and may be used by shareholders as the denominator for the calculations by which they can determine if they are required to notify their interest in, or a change to their interest in the Company under the Financial Conduct Authority's Disclosure Guidance and Transparency Rules.

For further information please contact:

Staffline Group plc	via Vigo Consulting
www.stafflinegroupplc.co.uk Albert Ellis, Chief Executive Officer Daniel Quint, Chief Financial Officer
Liberum Capital Limited (Nomad and Broker)	[phone]
www.liberum.com Richard Lindley Satbir Kler

Zeus (Joint Broker)	[phone]
www.zeuscapital.co.uk David Foreman (Investment Banking) Nick Searle (Sales)
Vigo Consulting (Financial PR)	[phone]
www.vigoconsulting.com Jeremy Garcia / Kate Kilgallen	[e-mail]

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

Providing workforce solutions

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 to around 400 client sites, across a wide range of industries including agriculture, 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

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.

 

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