Contract Win - Four Season Health Care employees

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Personal Group Holdings PLC

17 March 2014

 



Press Release

17 March 2014

Personal Group Holdings plc

("the Group")

Contract Win to provide benefits scheme to Four Seasons Health Care employees

Personal Group, a leading provider of employee benefits, employee related insurance products and financial services in the UK, is pleased to announce that it has been appointed to provide a benefits programme to the 33,000 employees of Four Seasons Health Care ("Four Seasons"), the UK's largest independent health and social care provider. This contract win is one of the most significant in the history of Personal Group in terms of employee numbers.  

The voluntary benefits programme will commence in March 2014. The programme will be available to employees both on and offline, via a bespoke web portal and through a hard copy benefits book.

Four Seasons Health Care operates over 500 Care Homes, hospitals and specialist centres across the UK, providing care and treatment for more than 20,000 people. 

Four Seasons chose to work with Personal Group due to the Group's ability to negotiate a broad range of benefits, as well as be able to care for their own staff's health and wellbeing with an Employee Assistance Programme ("EAP") through Personal Group. The EAP provides support to all employees across a number of areas through telephone advice and counsel, online support and specialist helplines. 

Ian R Smith, Chairman of Four Seasons, commented:  "We are always looking for additional ways to recognise our employees for the care and commitment they demonstrate every day.  Providing a range of benefits and discounts is one way of saying thank you to them."  

Mark Scanlon, CEO of Personal Group, commented: "This is a significant contract win for Personal Group and we are proud to serve Four Seasons. This contract award also further strengthens our position as a leading employee benefits provider to the healthcare sector, where our clients also include Aspen Healthcare and Barchester Healthcare.  This sizeable contract is a great achievement for the Group and follows our success in 2013, having won contracts including Network Rail, for their 35,000 employees.

"The Four Seasons programme will utilise the latest tools such as the Group's iPad application, which aids engagement, and we look forward to rolling this out to employees across the country." 

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Notes to Editors

Personal Group Holdings Plc (AIM: PGH) is a leading provider of employee benefits, employee related insurance products and financial services established 30 years ago with blue chip corporate clients across the UK. 

The Group's integrated benefits and insurance programmes offer employers a cost effective means of attracting, retaining and motivating employees.  Personal Group's tailored employee benefits packages include insurance products such as hospital and convalescence plans, death benefit and income protection plans; lifestyle benefits such as holiday and retail discounts; flexible benefit programmes; and a range of tax efficient benefits such as childcare vouchers.  Personal Group is committed to encouraging small behavioural changes in utilising the benefits packages available that can have a significant impact on the monthly financial situation of an employee. 

The Group's approach to employee communications is fundamental to the success of its programmes, as the balance of face to face meetings and innovative use of technology is a key strength of the Group. In total Personal Group offers access to benefits to over 1.2 million employees and has a strong client base across a range of sectors including transport, where it works with the likes of Network Rail and Stagecoach, healthcare, where clients include Priory Group and Spire Healthcare and logistics, with companies such as TNT express. Against a backdrop of the government's focus on increasing the responsibility of the individual in terms of lifestyle protection and insurance products, Personal Group enables the employer to put the structure in place for their employees to achieve this more easily. 

Personal Group is headquartered in Milton Keynes, listed on AIM in 2000 and today employs over 165 people.

For further information, go to www.personal-group.com.

About Four Seasons Health Care

Four Seasons Health Care is the UK's largest independent health and social care provider. The company operates 445 care homes with 22,364 beds and 61 specialist care centres with 1,601 beds in England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland, Jersey and the Isle of Man.

Four Seasons employ more than 30,000 staff caring for more than 20,000 residents.

Four Seasons' origins date back to the late 1980's.The company has developed through both the acquisition and construction of care facilities and has firmly established a reputation for professionalism in all aspects of its care operations.

Four Seasons ranks amongst the highest rated quality of care providers with c 88% of its homes in England rated good or excellent by the Care Quality Commission inspection ratings. The company's care home's division has taken a sector lead in the development of specialist services for residents with higher dependency needs including nursing care for infirm elderly, respite, step-up and step-down care, end-of-life care and an award winning specialist dementia service that is studied internationally.

 

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