PERSONAL GROUP HOLDINGS PLC

Director's Dealing • Jul 2, 2019

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RNS Number : 1065E

Personal Group Holdings PLC

02 July 2019

Press Release	2 July 2019

Personal Group Holdings plc

("the Company")

PDMR purchase of shares

Personal Group Holdings Plc operates an Inland Revenue approved Employee Share Ownership Plan which allows employees and directors the opportunity to purchase ordinary shares of 5p each in the Company ("Shares") currently held by Personal Group Trustees Limited.

The thirty fifth allocation period ended on 30 June 2019 and the following PDMRs have acquired Shares on 1 July 2019 as follows:

Director	Price paid per Share	Shares purchased	Total number of ordinary shares held following transaction	% of Company's issued share capital
Mr K Rooney	445.00p	268	2,698	0.009
Mr M Dugdale	445.00p	78	40,185*	0.129
Ms D Frost	445.00p	22	300,020	0.961
Mr A Doody	445.00p	23	875	0.003
Mr A Lothian	445.00p	15	38,092**	0.122
Mrs S Mace	445.00p	51	1,944	0.006

* This figure includes Mr Dugdale's wife's holding of 18,069 ordinary shares.

** This figure includes Mr Lothian's wife's holding of 17,570 ordinary shares.

Under the Rules of the plan, the share price at which the shares are purchased is the lower of the mid-market value at the start and end of the relevant accumulation period.

1

Details of the person discharging managerial responsibilities / person closely associated

a)

Name

1. Ken Rooney

2. Mike Dugdale

3. Deborah Frost

4. Ashley Doody

5. Andrew Lothian

6. Sarah Mace

2

Reason for the notification

a)

Position/status

1. Ken Rooney - Director/ PDMR

2. Mike Dugdale - Director/ PDMR

3. Deborah Frost - Director / PDMR

4. Ashley Doody - PDMR

5. Andrew Lothian - Director / PDMR

6. Sarah Mace - PDMR

b)

Initial notification /Amendment

Initial

3

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

a)

Name

Personal Group Holdings Plc

b)

LEI

213800TN8BH2YYWAH345

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 5p each

ISIN: GB0002760279

b)

Nature of the transaction

Purchase of shares pursuant to Personal Group Share Investment Plan

c)

Price(s) and volume(s)

Director/PDMR	Price(s)	Volume(s)
1. K Rooney 2. M Dugdale 3. D Rees-Frost 4. A Doody 5. A Lothian 6. S Mace	445.00p 445.00p 445.00p 445.00p 445.00p 445.00p	268 78 22 23 15 51

d)

Aggregated information

- Aggregated volume

- Price

457 shares

£4.45 per share

e)

Date of the transaction

1 July 2019

f)

Place of the transaction

Outside a trading venue

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For more information please contact:

Personal Group Holdings Plc
Mike Dugdale - Chief Financial Officer	+44 (0)1908 605 000
Philip Dennis -	+44 (0)7947 868 206

Cenkos Securities Plc
Max Hartley / Stephen Keys (Nomad)	+44 (0)20 7397 8900
Russell Kerr (Sales)

Media enquiries:

Hudson Sandler
Nick Lyon / Lucy Wollam	+44 (0)20 7796 4133
personalgroup@hudsonsandler.com

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 in-house services including employee insurance products (hospital, convalescence plans and death benefit), 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 digital 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.  The acquisition of Innecto in February 2019 allows Personal Group to engage with clients earlier in their thinking around Pay and Reward, and to interact with a new base of blue-chip and fast growth clients typically at HR Director and CEO level.

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

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