Exercise of Options and Issue of Equity

Personal Group Holdings plc

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

Exercise of Options and Issue of Equity under the LTIP

Personal Group Holdings Plc (AIM: PGH), a leading provider of employee benefits, employee related insurance products and financial services in the UK, announces the following transactions in relation to the Company's Long Term Incentive Plan ("LTIP1").

As announced on 18 December 2012, the Company stated that it had implemented an LTIP to reward directors and certain other senior employees in a way that aligns the interests of LTIP participants with the interests of shareholders, as well as with the Group's long-term strategic plan. Details of this plan, LTIP1, are disclosed in the Group's financial statements for the year ended 31 December 2015.

Exercise of Options 

The Company has been informed today by Mike Dugdale. Chief Financial Officer, of the exercise of options over 35,771 Ordinary Shares in the Company at a price of nil pence per share. These options had been granted under LTIP1 as detailed in the announcement on 6 January 2016.

Following this transaction, Mike Dugdale has an interest of 52,968 Ordinary Shares representing 0.17% of the issued ordinary share capital of the Company. This includes Mr Dugdale's wife's holding of 2,954 ordinary shares.

Issue of Equity

The Company has allotted a total of 35,771 new Ordinary Shares of 5p each ("New Shares") in connection with the above exercise. Application will be made for the New Shares to be admitted to trading on AIM ("Admission") and it is expected that Admission will take place on 27 April 2016.

Following Admission, the Company will have 30,410,508 Ordinary Shares in issue.  The Company does not hold any Ordinary Shares in treasury.  Therefore the total number of Ordinary Shares in the Company with voting rights is 30,410,508.

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Notes to Editors

With over 30 years' experience 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.  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.

Personal Group can also supply home technology via salary sacrifice through its subsidiary Let's Connect.  Offering the latest iPads and other tablets, home computers and laptops, smart phones and smart TVs is a highly engaging benefit from which both the employer and employee can profit. In April 2015 the Group established its own Mobile Virtual Network Operator (MVNO) called Personal Group Mobile Ltd. which was achieved through the acquisition of the assets of shebang Technologies Ltd. This means that home technology, including handsets and airtime, can be provided via salary sacrifice with a reduction of c10-47% on costs to its client's employees.

Personal Group has a strong client base across a range of sectors including transport, where it works with the likes of Network Rail, Stagecoach and EYMS Group Ltd, and healthcare, where clients include Four Seasons Health Care, Priory Group and Spire Healthcare. The Group also covers logistics, with companies such as TNT Express and Bibby, and motoring with Manheim and JCT600 as clients. In addition 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 520 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.