Dividend Announcement and notice of results

RNS Number : 0269G

Personal Group Holdings PLC

27 February 2015

 



Press Release

27 February 2015

Personal Group Holdings Plc

(the "Company" or the "Group")

Dividend Announcement and notice of preliminary results

The directors of the Company are pleased to announce that the first dividend for 2015 of 5.225 pence per share will be paid on 27 March 2015 to members on the register on 13 March 2015.  Shares will be marked ex-dividend on 12 March 2015.

This dividend is the first of the four dividends expected to be announced this year and represents an increase of 6.63% over the equivalent period last year.

Mark Scanlon, Chief Executive of the Company, commented: "The Board is pleased to announce this increased dividend, which is in line with our progressive dividend policy." 

The Group will report its Preliminary Results for the financial year ended 31 December 2014 on Thursday 26 March 2015.

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For more information please contact:

Personal Group Holdings Plc
Mike Dugdale - Chief Financial Officer	[phone]

Cenkos Securities Plc
Max Hartley / Stephen Keys (Nomad)	[phone]
Russell Kerr (Sales)

Media enquiries:

Abchurch Communications
Quincy Allan / Alex Shaw	[phone]
[e-mail]	www.abchurch-group.com

Notes to Editors

With a 30 year track record 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.  Personal Group's benefits offer employees an effective way of making their pay-packet stretch further.  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.

In March 2014, the Group acquired Lets Connect, a leader in the home technology salary sacrifice market which focuses on large enterprises in the private and public sector. 

Personal Group 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. 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 550 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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