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Press Release | 25 June 2014 |
Personal Group Holdings plc
("the Company")
Exercise of Options and Sale of Shares
Director Shareholding
The company has been informed today by Kenneth Rooney, Deputy Chairman of the following transactions in Ordinary Shares in the Company.
1. Exercise of options over 35,242 Ordinary Shares in the Company at a price of 283.75 pence per share.
2. Sale of 35,242 Ordinary Shares, at a price of 557.5 pence per share to Personal Group Trustees Limited (a company wholly owned by the Company which operates the Company's All Employee Share Option Plan (AESOP) and Company's Share Option Plan (CSOP).
Following these transactions, Mr Kenneth Rooney remains interested in 3,333 Ordinary Shares, representing 0.01% of the total Ordinary Shares in issue.
The Company has been informed today by Mark Scanlon, Chief Executive, that he sold 55,000 Ordinary Shares of 5 pence each, on the same day at a price of 557.5 pence per Ordinary Share to Personal Group Trustees Limited. Following this transaction Mr Scanlon remains interested in 1,588 Ordinary Shares representing 0.01% of the total Ordinary Shares in issue.
-ENDS-
For more information please contact:
Personal Group Holdings Plc | |
Mike Dugdale, Chief Financial Officer | +44 (0)1908 605 000 |
Cenkos Securities Plc | |
Max Hartley / Stephen Keys (Nomad) | +44 (0)20 7397 8900 |
Russell Kerr (Sales) |
Media enquiries:
Abchurch Communications | |
Quincy Allan / Alistair de Kare-Silver | +44 (0)20 7398 7710 |
quincy.allan@abchurch-group.com | 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.