Directorship Changes

Press Release                                                                                                                                     1 October 2020

Personal Group Holdings PLC

(the "Company" or "Personal Group")

Directorship Changes

Further to its announcement on 4 June 2020, the Company is pleased to announce that Sarah Mace, Group Financial Controller and Company Secretary has been appointed to the Board as Interim CFO with immediate effect.  As previously announced, Sarah joins the Board in replacement of Mike Dugdale, who leaves the Company due to retirement.

Sarah joined Personal Group in January 2014 as Group Financial Controller and Company Secretary. Previously Head of Finance for Chicago Leisure Ltd, she has experience in a range of industries including roles at Cable and Wireless and various life and pensions companies. Sarah is a Fellow of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants and has a Master's degree in mathematics from Oxford University.

AIM Rule disclosures

Sarah Anne Mace, aged 52, is currently a director of the following companies or partnerships and has not held any other previous directorships or partnerships within the past five years:

She currently holds 2,070 ordinary shares in the Company under its SIP scheme.

There is no further information required to be disclosed in accordance with Schedule Two, paragraph (g) of the AIM Rules for Companies.

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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 35 years' experience, the Company provides employee benefits and services to a large number of employees across the UK.

Personal Group offer 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), the provision of e-payslips, and pay and reward consulting via Innecto, the leading independent UK consultancy acquired in 2019. Third party services include retail discounts, employee assistance programmes, wellbeing programmes and salary sacrifice cars and bikes.

The product 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 to the majority of the working population in the UK; including 15.6m SME employees targeted via its partnership with Sage, the UK's largest software company. 

The Personal Group innovative approach to using technology to deliver its programmes, in combination with its face-to-face method of communicating with employees, delivers a compelling offer 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 diverse range of sectors. Clients include: Arsenal F.C., Barchester Healthcare Ltd, DHL Supply Chain Limited, The Go-Ahead Group plc, Samworth Brothers Ltd, Independent Television News, Stagecoach Group plc and Wincanton plc.

For further information, please see www.personalgroup.com