Empresaria Group PLC Transaction in Own Shares (5364Y)

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RNS Number : 5364Y

Empresaria Group PLC

09 September 2020

9 September 2020

Empresaria Group plc

("Empresaria" or the "Company")

Transaction in Own Shares

Empresaria, the international specialist staffing group, announces that further to its share buyback programme announced on 17 June 2020 ("Programme"), on 8 September 2020 it purchased 10,000 ordinary shares of GBP0.05 each in the Company ("Ordinary Shares") at a price of GBP0.42 per Ordinary Share.

All of the Ordinary Shares purchased under the Programme will be transferred to the Empresaria Employee Benefit Trust. The Company intends that Ordinary Shares transferred to the Empresaria Employee Benefit Trust will be used to satisfy the exercise of options vested under the Company's Long Term Incentive Plan.

Following the above purchase, the Company has 49,019,132 Ordinary Shares in issue, of which 204,200 are held by the Company as treasury shares until they are transferred to the Empresaria Employee Benefit Trust. Therefore, the total number of voting rights in the Company is 48,814,932.

The above figure of 48,814,932 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 Company under the FCA's Disclosure Guidance and Transparency Rules.

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Enquiries:

 
Empresaria Group plc                     via Alma PR 
 Rhona Driggs, Chief Executive Officer 
 Tim Anderson, Chief Financial Officer 
N+1 Singer (Nominated Adviser and 
 Broker) 
 Shaun Dobson / James Moat               020 7614 3000 
Alma PR (Financial PR)                   020 3405 0205 
 Rebecca Sanders-Hewett                   [e-mail] 
 Sam Modlin 
 David Ison 
 

Notes for editors:

-- Empresaria Group plc is a global specialist staffing group offering temporary and contract recruitment, permanent recruitment and offshore recruitment services across 6 sectors: Professional, IT, Healthcare, Property, Construction & Engineering, Commercial and Offshore Recruitment Services.

-- Empresaria operates from locations across the world including 4 of the largest staffing markets of the US, Japan, UK and Germany along with a strong presence in Asia Pacific and Latin America.

-- Empresaria is listed on AIM under ticker EMR. For more information visit empresaria.com.

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