Director/PDMR Shareholding

Staffline

30/03/2026 11:45

RNS Number : 6490Y

Staffline Group PLC

30 March 2026

 

30 March 2026

Staffline Group plc

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

Director / PDMR Shareholding

Staffline (AIM: STAF), the recruitment and training group, announces that on 26 March 2026 awards under the Staffline Long Term Incentive Plan ("the LTIP 2023 awards") vested with certain PDMRs in respect of an aggregate of 1,815,518 LTIP 2023 share options (the "LTIP 2023 Options"). All of these LTIP 2023 Options have been immediately exercised by the respective LTIP 2023 share option holders (the "Participants").

 

Further details of the exercise of the LTIP 2023 Options are set out at the end of this announcement.

 

Upon the exercise of the LTIP 2023 Options, the tax and national insurance liabilities of the Participants arising on exercise of the options were settled at source by the Company, with a balancing net number of ordinary shares of 10p each in the Company ("Ordinary Shares") transferred into the Participants' names by the Trustee of the Staffline Employee Benefit Trust (the "EBT").

The Ordinary Shares awarded to PDMRs are set out in the table below.

Director/ PDMR
Position
Total LTIP 2023 Options vesting
Ordinary Shares to be received net of tax and NIC liability
Albert Ellis
Chief Executive Officer
1,043,485
553,047
Daniel Quint
Chief Financial Officer
819,881
434,537
Martina McKenzie
MD Recruitment Ireland
159,286
84,422
Frank Atkinson
MD Recruitment GB
327,952
173,815

 

Accordingly, the Employee Benefit Trust ("EBT") is transferring to the above listed individuals a total of 1,245,821 Ordinary Shares.

 

Albert Ellis and Daniel Quint now hold 1,844,519 and 1,440,040 Ordinary Shares, respectively, representing 1.5% and 1.2% of the issued share capital of the Company.

 

For further information, please contact:

 

 

Staffline Group plc
www.stafflinegroupplc.co.uk
Albert Ellis, Chief Executive Officer
Daniel Quint, Chief Financial Officer
via Vigo Consulting
Panmure Liberum Limited (Nominated Adviser and Broker)
www.liberum.com
Nick How / Satbir Kler
020 3100 2222
Zeus (Joint Broker)
www.zeuscapital.co.uk
David Foreman (Investment Banking)
Nick Searle (Sales)
020 3829 5000
Vigo Consulting (Financial PR)
www.vigoconsulting.com
Jeremy Garcia / Anna Sutton
020 7390 0230
Staffline@vigoconsulting.com

 

About Staffline - Recruitment

Enabling the Future of Work™

Staffline is one of the UK's leading Recruitment groups. It has two divisions:

 

Recruitment GB

The Recruitment GB business is a leading provider of flexible blue-collar workers, supplying up to c.38,000 staff per day from around 550 sites, across a wide range of industries including supermarkets, drinks, driving, food processing, logistics and manufacturing.

 

Recruitment Ireland 

The Recruitment Ireland business is a leading end to end solutions provider operating across multiple industries, ten branch locations and ten onsite customer locations, supplying up to c.4,700 staff per day, and offering RPO, MSP, temporary and permanent solutions across public and private sectors throughout the island of Ireland.

 

  

Notification of a Transaction pursuant to Article 19(1) of Regulation (EU) No. 596/2014
1
Details of the person discharging managerial responsibilities/person closely associated
a.
Name
Albert Ellis
2
Reason for notification
a.
Position/Status
Chief Executive Officer
b.
Initial notification/ Amendment
Initial
3
Details of the issuer, emission allowance market participant, auction platform, auctioneer or auction monitor
a.
Name
Staffline Group plc
b.
LEI
213800BVLF1BCOJUH828
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 10p each


 ISIN: GB00B040L800
b.
Nature of the transaction
Exercise of LTIP 2023 Options over Ordinary Shares and transfer of Ordinary Shares by Staffline Employee Benefit Trust
c.
Price(s) and volume(s)
Price(s)
Volume(s)
N/A
553,047
d.
Aggregated information
- Aggregated Volume
- Price
N/A - single transaction
e.
Date of the transaction
26 March 2026
f.
Place of the transaction
Outside a trading venue

 

 

Notification of a Transaction pursuant to Article 19(1) of Regulation (EU) No. 596/2014
1
Details of the person discharging managerial responsibilities/person closely associated
a.
Name
Daniel Quint
2
Reason for notification
a.
Position/Status
Chief Financial Officer
b.
Initial notification/ Amendment
Initial
3
Details of the issuer, emission allowance market participant, auction platform, auctioneer or auction monitor
a.
Name
Staffline Group plc
b.
LEI
213800BVLF1BCOJUH828
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 10p each


 ISIN: GB00B040L800
b.
Nature of the transaction
Exercise of LTIP 2023 Options over Ordinary Shares and transfer of Ordinary Shares by Staffline Employee Benefit Trust
c.
Price(s) and volume(s)
Price(s)
Volume(s)
N/A
434,537
d.
Aggregated information
- Aggregated Volume
- Price
N/A - single transaction
e.
Date of the transaction
26 March 2026
f.
Place of the transaction
Outside a trading venue

 

Notification of a Transaction pursuant to Article 19(1) of Regulation (EU) No. 596/2014
1
Details of the person discharging managerial responsibilities/person closely associated
a.
Name
Martina McKenzie
2
Reason for notification
MD Recruitment Ireland
a.
Position/Status
b.
Initial notification/ Amendment
Initial
3
Details of the issuer, emission allowance market participant, auction platform, auctioneer or auction monitor
a.
Name
Staffline Group plc
b.
LEI
213800BVLF1BCOJUH828
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 10p each


 ISIN: GB00B040L800
b.
Nature of the transaction
Exercise of LTIP 2023 Options over Ordinary Shares and transfer of Ordinary Shares by Staffline Employee Benefit Trust
c.
Price(s) and volume(s)
Price(s)
Volume(s)
N/A
84,422
d.
Aggregated information
- Aggregated Volume
- Price
N/A - single transaction
e.
Date of the transaction
26 March 2026
f.
Place of the transaction
Outside a trading venue

 

 

Notification of a Transaction pursuant to Article 19(1) of Regulation (EU) No. 596/2014
1
Details of the person discharging managerial responsibilities/person closely associated
a.
Name
Frank Atkinson
2
Reason for notification
MD Recruitment GB
a.
Position/Status
b.
Initial notification/ Amendment
Initial
3
Details of the issuer, emission allowance market participant, auction platform, auctioneer or auction monitor
a.
Name
Staffline Group plc
b.
LEI
213800BVLF1BCOJUH828
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 10p each


 ISIN: GB00B040L800
b.
Nature of the transaction
Exercise of LTIP 2023 Options over Ordinary Shares and transfer of Ordinary Shares by Staffline Employee Benefit Trust
c.
Price(s) and volume(s)
Price(s)
Volume(s)
N/A
173,815
d.
Aggregated information
- Aggregated Volume
- Price
N/A - single transaction
e.
Date of the transaction
26 March 2026
f.
Place of the transaction
Outside a trading venue

 

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