Exercise of Options, PDMR and Total Voting Rights
18 September 2026
Personal Group Holdings Plc
("the Company" or "the Group")
Exercise of Options, PDMR Dealing and Total Voting Rights
Personal Group Holdings Plc (AIM: PGH), the workforce benefits and health insurance provider, announces that it has allotted 28,522 new ordinary shares of £0.05 pence each in the capital of the Company (“Ordinary Shares") following the exercise of options by a PDMR employee under the Company's Share Option Plan (the "CSOP").
PDMR
Role
Number of Ordinary Shares acquired following exercise of options
Exercise price per Share
Number of Ordinary Shares sold to cover tax and exercise liability
Resultant holding in Company (shares)
Resultant percentage holding of enlarged issued share capital
Karen Thornley
PDMR
28,522
£0.05
16,720
52,511
0.17%
Admission and Total Voting Rights
Application has been made for the new Ordinary Shares to be admitted to trading on AIM ("Admission"), and it is expected that Admission will occur on 21 September 2026. The new Ordinary Shares will rank pari passu in all respects with the existing ordinary shares of the Company, including the right to receive all dividends and other distributions declared, made or paid after the date of issue.
Following Admission, the Company's issued share capital will consist of 31,639,520 ordinary shares of £0.05 pence each. The Company does not hold any shares in treasury.
The above figure of 31,639,520 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.
Further detail is provided below in accordance with Article 19.3 of the EU Market Abuse Regulation.
For more information please contact:
Personal Group Holdings Plc
Paula Constant (CEO) / Matt Cohen (CFO)
Via Alma
Canaccord Genuity Limited (Nominated Adviser & Broker)
Max Hartley / Harry Rees
+44 (0)20 7523 8000
Alma Strategic Communications
+44 (0)20 3405 0205
Caroline Forde / Rose Docherty
Notes to Editors
Personal Group Holdings Plc (AIM: PGH) is a workforce benefits and health insurance provider. Its vision is to be the champion of affordable and accessible insurance and benefits, keeping businesses and their employees happy, healthy and protected. The Group is proud to support the health and wellbeing of c. 1.25 million UK employees.
The Group's insurance provides employees with access to affordable, individual policies for hospital, recovery and death benefit plans. The Group's award-winning benefits platform, Hapi, brings together extensive employee benefits, discounts and rewards, in one responsive platform. As well as being sold direct to employers, the Hapi platform supports Sage's Employee Benefits offerings for SMEs. The Group also offers pay and reward consultancy to UK clients through its Innecto brand.
This comprehensive range of offerings, powerful platform and unique sales model of face-to-face, one-to-one engagement with employees, provides Personal Group with a strong market position from which to grow.
Head-quartered in Milton Keynes, the Group has built an extensive blue-chip customer list over its 40-year history, including Airtanker, B & Q, Barchester Healthcare, British Transport Police, British Airways, Merseyrail, Office of National Statistics, Randstad, Royal Mail Group, The Royal Mint, Stagecoach Group plc, and The University of York
For further information on the Group please see www.personalgroup.com
1
Details of the person discharging managerial responsibilities / person closely associated
a)
Name
Karen Thornley
2
Reason for the notification
a)
Position/status
PDMR
b)
Initial notification /Amendment
Initial
3
Details of the issuer, emission allowance market participant, auction platform, auctioneer or auction monitor
a)
Name
Personal Group Holdings Plc
b)
LEI
213800TN8BH2YYWAH345
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
a)
Description of the financial instrument, type of instrument
Identification code
Ordinary shares of 5p each
ISIN: GB0002760279
b)
Nature of the transaction
- Exercise of options
- Sale of shares to cover tax liability
c)
Price(s) and volume(s)
- Exercise of options
- Sale of shares to cover tax liability
Price(s)
Volume(s)
- £0.05 per share
- £4.0721 per share
28,522
16,720
d)
Aggregated information
- Aggregated volume
- Price
- N/A - single transaction
e)
Date of the transaction
15 September 2026
f)
Place of the transaction
London Stock Exchange
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