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12/08/2015 12:00

RNS Number : 8551V
Personal Group Holdings PLC
12 August 2015
Press Release
12 August 2015
Personal Group Holdings Plc
("Personal Group", the "Company" or the "Group")
LTIP 
Personal Group Holdings Plc (AIM: PGH), a leading provider of employee benefits, employee related insurance products and financial services in the UK, announces the allotment of shares under the Employee Shareholder Status ("ESS") rules in relation to a new Company Long Term Incentive Plan ("LTIP2").
The current 5 Year Senior Management LTIP ("LTIP1") will mature at the end of 2016. As with LTIP1, LTIP2 is designed to reward directors and certain other senior employees in a way that aligns the interests of LTIP participants with the interests of shareholders, as well as with the Group's long-term strategic plan. Details of the original LTIP are disclosed in the Group's annual report and accounts for the year ended 31 December 2014. As is the case with LTIP1, LTIP2 is Market Capitalisation based and becomes reward bearing above a Company Market Capitalisation of 183.7m. It also has a yearly EPS performance criterion through its life which can be adjusted by the Remuneration Committee.
The LTIP2 incentive arrangements are detailed below: 
The following employee shareholder status shares in Personal Group Limited were awarded on 30th July 2015 ("ESS Shares"). Participants had immediate PAYE and NIC charges on the associated market value of the ESS Shares. 
Name 
Position
ESS Shares awarded
 
Mark Scanlon 
Chief Executive 
20,000
Mike Dugdale
Chief Financial Officer
 4,000
All other qualifying staff
11,000
Total
35,000
The ESS Shares are split equally into four classes, namely A,B,C and D shares each of which carry a put option which allows the participants to exchange their ESS Shares for Personal Group Holdings Plc ordinary shares in tranches on reaching or exceeding the hurdles of market capitalisation and Annual EPS. Awards can be made annually starting in March 2017 (A shares) through to March 2020 (D shares) based on market capitalisation growth of the Company up to a market capitalisation of 350m and upon achieving the Annual EPS growth targets. The awards will be paid out as 20%, 40%, 70% and 100% cumulatively of the eligible share of growth in market capitalisation for A, B, C and D shares respectively. The maximum potential dilution assuming all the ESS Shares are converted into ordinary shares in the Company would be approximately 4.2 per cent. of the enlarged issued share capital of the Company.
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For more information please contact:
Personal Group Holdings Plc
Mike Dugdale, Chief Financial Officer
+44 (0)1908 605 000
Cenkos Securities Plc
Max Hartley / Stephen Keys (Nomad)
+44 (0)20 7397 8900
Russell Kerr (Sales)
Media enquiries:
Abchurch Communications
Quincy Allan / Alex Shaw
+44 (0)20 7398 7700
quincy.allan@abchurch-group.com
www.abchurch-group.com
Notes to editors:
With over 30 years' experience of looking after its customers' employees, Personal Group Holdings Plc (AIM: PGH) is a leading provider of employee benefits and employee related insurance products, offering benefits programmes to over 2 million employees across the UK.
Personal Group's innovative approach to using technology to deliver its programmes, combined with its face-to-face method of communicating with employees, makes its offering compelling to blue chip clients across the UK as a way of attracting, retaining and motivating employees. The Group tailors its packages to include insurance products such as hospital and convalescence plans, death benefit and income protection plans, as well as lifestyle benefits such as holiday and retail discounts, health and wellbeing benefits and a range of tax efficient benefits. 
Personal Group can also supply home technology via salary sacrifice through its subsidiary Lets Connect. Offering the latest iPads and other tablets, home computers and laptops, smart phones and smart TVs is a highly engaging benefit which has employee and employer benefits too. In April 2015 the Group established its own Mobile Virtual Network Operator (MVNO) called Personal Group Mobile Ltd. This was achieved through the acquisition of the assets of shebang Technologies Ltd and in addition to handsets can provide airtime via salary sacrifice which offers an overall 10-47% reduction on mobile phone costs to its client's employees.
Personal Group has a strong client base across a range of sectors including transport, where it works with the likes of Network Rail, Stagecoach and EYMS Group Ltd, healthcare, where clients include Four Seasons Health Care, Priory Group and Spire Healthcare. The Group also covers logistics, with companies such as TNT Express and Bibby, and motoring with Manheim and JCT600 as clients. In addition the Group also has a strong presence in food manufacturing and service and clients include 2 Sisters Food Group and Young's Seafood. 
With over 450 clients the Group has grown considerably and provides engaging and effective benefits packages across a breadth of sectors. 
For further information, go to www.personal-group.com

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