STAFFLINE GROUP PLC

Director's Dealing • Jul 27, 2018

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RNS Number : 0153W

Staffline Group PLC

27 July 2018

For immediate release                                                                                                                 27 July 2018

STAFFLINE GROUP PLC

("Staffline", "the Company" or "the Group")

Joint Share Ownership Award

Staffline, the Recruitment and Training group, announces that on 19 July 2018, it granted awards over 50,000 ordinary shares in the Company to Jonathan Bowler, Finance Director of PeoplePlus, in accordance with the 2018 Staffline Group Joint Share Ownership Plan ("2018 JSOP"). These ordinary shares are held by the Staffline Group Employee Benefit Trust ("EBT").

The terms of the 2018 JSOP are as disclosed in the Company's announcement of 24 January 2018.

Details of the transaction can be found in the Annex page that follows.

For further information, please contact:
Staffline Group plc
Chris Pullen, Chief Executive Officer                                                                                   07786 265344
Michael Watts, Group Chief Financial Officer                                                                  07970 215262
investors@staffline.co.uk www.stafflinegroupplc.co.uk
Liberum NOMAD and Joint Broker
Steve Pearce / Joshua Hughes                                                                                                020 3100 2222
www.liberum.com
Berenberg  Joint Broker
Chris Bowman / Toby Flaux                                                                                                     020 3207 7800
www.berenberg.com
Buchanan   PR and Communications
Richard Oldworth / Jamie Hooper / Madeleine Seacombe                                          020 7466 5000
staffline@buchanan.uk.com www.buchanan.uk.com

About Staffline - Recruitment, Training and Support

"Enabling the future of work"

Staffline is the UK's market leading Recruitment and Training group. It has two divisions:

Recruitment Division

The UK's leading provider of flexible blue-collar workers, supplying over 60,000 staff per day to c. 1,500 private sector clients, across a wide range of industries including agriculture, drinks, driving, food processing, logistics and manufacturing.  It operates from over 400 locations in UK, Eire and Poland.

Its world leading Customer Experience platform provides optimised customer-based staffing management solutions whilst providing market-leading levels of job satisfaction for workers.

PeoplePlus Division

The leading adult skills and training provider in the UK, delivering apprenticeships, adult education, prison education and skills-based employability programmes across the country.

Education and Training - market leading provider of training courses for private sector Apprenticeships (both Levy and non-Levy) and Government funded Adult Skills programmes.

Employability - top quartile performer, supporting Government programmes providing back-to-work education and support services to the unemployed.

Justice and Community - education and training services for prisoners and ex-offenders, as well as individual support services for carers and people with disabilities, both at home and in the work place.

ANNEX

The following notifications are intended to satisfy the Company's obligations under Article 19(3) of EU Regulation No 596/2014 (the Market Abuse Regulation).

Notification and public disclosure of transactions by persons discharging managerial responsibilities and persons closely associated with them

1

Details of the person discharging managerial responsibilities/person closely associated

a)

Name

JONATHAN BOWLER

2

Reason for the notification

a)

Position/status

FINANCE DIRECTOR - PEOPLEPLUS DIVISION

b)

Initial notification/ Amendment

INITIAL NOTIFICATION

3

Details of the issuer, emission allowance market participant, auction platform, auctioneer or auction monitor

a)

Name

STAFFLINE GROUP PLC

b)

LEI

213800BVLF1BCOJUH828

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

a)

Description of the financial instrument, type of instrument

Identification code

ORDINARY SHARES OF 10P EACH

GB00B040L800

b)

Nature of the transaction

ALLOCATION OF ORDINARY SHARES OF 10P EACH UNDER THE STAFFLINE GROUP PLC JOINT SHARE OWNERSHIP PLAN 2018

c)

Price(s) and volume(s)

Price(s)	Volume(s)
£9.99	50,000

d)

Aggregated information

-        Aggregated volume

-      Price

NOT APPLICABLE

e)

Date of the transaction

19 JULY 2018

f)

Place of the transaction

OFF MARKET

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