Staffline Group PLC Result of General Meeting and Total Voting Rights (5142F)

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RNS Number : 5142F

Staffline Group PLC

15 July 2019

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15 July 2019

Staffline Group plc

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

Result of General Meeting and Total Voting Rights

Staffline, the Recruitment and Training group, is pleased to announce that at the General Meeting held earlier today, all resolutions proposed were duly passed by shareholders.

The Placing and Open Offer remain conditional on the admission of the 40,986,097 New Ordinary Shares to trading on AIM having become effective on or before 8.00 a.m. on 16 July 2019.

The Enlarged Share Capital of the Company following Admission will be 68,930,486 Ordinary Shares in aggregate. Therefore the total voting rights in the Company as at 16 July 2019 will be 68,930,486. This figure may be used by Shareholders (and others with notification obligations) 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.

Capitalised terms not otherwise defined in the text of this announcement have the meanings given in the Company's announcement of 27 June 2019.

Enquiries:

 
 Staffline Group plc                              via Vigo Communications 
  www.stafflinegroupplc.co.uk 
  Chris Pullen, Chief Executive Officer 
  Michael Watts, Chief Financial Officer 
 
 Liberum Financial Adviser and Sole Bookrunner 
  www.liberum.com 
  Steve Pearce / Joshua Hughes / Euan Brown 
  / William Hall                                  020 3100 2222 
 
 Vigo Communications Financial PR                 020 7390 0230 
  www.vigocomms.com                                [e-mail] 
  Jeremy Garcia / Antonia Pollock / Charlie 
  Neish 
 

Market Abuse Regulation:

This announcement is released by Staffline Group plc and contains inside information for the purposes of the Market Abuse Regulation (EU) 596/2014 ("MAR") and is disclosed in accordance with the Company's obligations under Article 17 of MAR.

The person responsible for arranging the release of this information is Mr Chris Pullen, CEO of the Company.

Overview of Staffline

Staffline is the UK's market leading Recruitment and Training group. It has two divisions:

Recruitment Division

A leading provider of flexible blue-collar workers in the UK, supplying over 60,000 staff per day to c. 1,600 private sector clients, across a wide range of industries including agriculture, drinks, driving, food processing, logistics and manufacturing. It operates from over 450 locations in UK, Eire and Poland. Its leading UK 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.

Skills and Training - market leading provider of Apprenticeships (both Levy and non-Levy), learning and development, adult education and health and well-being programmes to the Private and Public sector.

Justice and Community - largest independent provider of 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.

Employability - market leading provider of programmes providing back-to-work education, skills support services to the unemployed and enterprise advice to individuals wanting to start their own business.

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