Staffline Group PLC Joint Share Ownership Award (0153W)

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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 
 [e-mail] 
  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 
 [e-mail] 
  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 
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 2    Reason for the notification 
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 a)   Position/status             FINANCE DIRECTOR - PEOPLEPLUS DIVISION 
     --------------------------  ------------------------------------------- 
 b)   Initial notification/       INITIAL NOTIFICATION 
       Amendment 
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 3    Details of the issuer, emission allowance market 
       participant, auction platform, auctioneer or auction 
       monitor 
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 a)   Name                        STAFFLINE GROUP PLC 
     --------------------------  ------------------------------------------- 
 b)   LEI                         213800BVLF1BCOJUH828 
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 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 
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 a)   Description 
       of the financial             ORDINARY SHARES OF 10P EACH 
       instrument, 
       type of instrument 
 
       Identification               GB00B040L800 
       code 
     --------------------------  ------------------------------------------- 
 b)   Nature of                   ALLOCATION OF ORDINARY SHARES OF 10P 
       the transaction             EACH UNDER THE STAFFLINE GROUP PLC JOINT 
                                   SHARE OWNERSHIP PLAN 2018 
     --------------------------  ------------------------------------------- 
 c)   Price(s)                      Price(s)    Volume(s) 
       and volume(s)                 GBP9.99     50,000 
                                                ---------- 
     --------------------------  ------------------------------------------- 
 d)   Aggregated 
       information                  NOT APPLICABLE 
 
        *    Aggregated volume 
 
 
 
        *    Price 
     --------------------------  ------------------------------------------- 
 e)   Date of the                 19 JULY 2018 
       transaction 
     --------------------------  ------------------------------------------- 
 f)   Place of                    OFF MARKET 
       the transaction 
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