Personal Group Regulatory News (PGH)

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Personal Group Holdings plc

("the Company" or "the Group")

Result of General Meeting and Issue of Equity 

Personal Group Holdings plc, a leading provider of employee services in the UK, announces that the resolution put to Shareholders today at the General Meeting in connection with the proposed acquisition of Innecto People Consulting Limited was duly passed, enabling completion of the Acquisition.

In addition, application has been made to AIM pursuant to the issue and admission to trading on AIM of 299,237 and 31,451 Subscription Shares subscribed by Deborah Frost and Justine Woolf, respectively, each at a price of £3.48 per share. It is expected that Admission will occur on 28 February 2019.

Following Admission, the Company's issued share capital will consist of 31,219,207 Ordinary Shares with voting rights. 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 interest in, the share capital of the Company under the Financial Conduct Authority's Disclosure Guidance and Transparency Rules.

Unless otherwise defined, capitalised terms in this announcement shall have the same meaning as those in the Company's announcement dated 6 February 2019 under RNS number 1798P.

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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 over 2 million employees across the UK.

Personal Group's offer comprises 8,000 in-house and third party products and services, from c.60 supply lines. In-house services include employee insurance products (hospital, convalescence plans and death benefit) and the provision of home technology via salary sacrifice (iPads, computers, laptops, smart phones and smart TVs). Third party services include retail discounts, e-payslips, employee assistance programmes, wellbeing programmes and salary sacrifice cars and bikes.

The 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 SaaS product.

Through technology and select acquisitions, the Company has grown its addressable market from 6m to over 27m UK employees; 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, combined with its face-to-face method of communicating with employees, makes its offer compelling to blue chip clients across the UK as a way of attracting, retaining and motivating employees.

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, Priory Group, Spire Healthcare, Bibby, 2 Sisters Food Group and Young's Seafood.

For further information, please see www.personalgroup.com