Director/PDMR Shareholding

Staffline Group PLC

26 January 2024

 

26 January 2024

Staffline Group plc

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

Director/PDMR Shareholding

Staffline (AIM: STAF), the recruitment and training group, has been notified that on 23 January 2024, Henry Spain Investment Services Limited, a person closely associated ("PCA") with Thomas Spain, Non-Executive Director and Interim Chairman of the Company, purchased 25,000 shares of 10p each in the Company ("Ordinary Shares") at 22.38 pence per Ordinary Share and on 24 January 2024, purchased 150,000 Ordinary Shares at 23.30 pence per Ordinary Share.

In addition, Staffline has been notified of the following additional transactions in the Ordinary Shares on 23 January 2024. 76,470 Ordinary Shares were purchased for discretionary private clients of Henry Spain Investment Services Limited at an average purchase price of 22.38 pence per Ordinary Share. Additionally, 75,968 Ordinary Shares were sold and repurchased by Henry Spain Investment Services Limited at an average price of 22.50 pence per Ordinary Share as a result of adjustments to individual client portfolios.

Following the above transactions, Henry Spain Investment Services Limited has a notifiable interest in 36,092,753 Ordinary Shares, representing 24.2% of the issued Ordinary 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
Liberum (Nominated Adviser and Broker) www.liberum.com Richard Lindley / 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 / Verity Snow	020 7390 0230 [e-mail]

About Staffline

About Staffline - Recruitment, Training and Support

Enabling the Future of Work™

Staffline is the UK's market leading Recruitment and Training group. It has three divisions:

Recruitment GB

Staffline is a leading provider of flexible blue-collar workers, supplying c.31,000 staff per day on average from around 400 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 twenty industries, ten branch locations and ten onsite customer locations, supplying c.4,500 staff per day on average, and offering RPO, MSP, temporary and permanent solutions across the island of Ireland.

PeoplePlus Division

Staffline is the leading adult skills and training provider in the UK, delivering adult education, prison education and skills-based employability programmes across the country.

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	Henry Spain Investment Services Limited
2	Reason for notification
a.	Position/Status	PCA of Thomas Spain, Non-Executive Director and Interim Chairman
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	Sale of Ordinary Shares
c.	Price(s) and volume(s)	Price(s) Volume(s) £0.2250 75,968
d.	Aggregated information - Aggregated Volume - Price	N/A
e.	Date of the transaction	23 January 2024
f.	Place of the transaction	XLON

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	Henry Spain Investment Services Limited
2	Reason for notification
a.	Position/Status	PCA of Thomas Spain, Non-Executive Director and Interim Chairman
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	Purchase of Ordinary Shares
c.	Price(s) and volume(s)	Price(s) Volume(s) £0.2250 75,968 £0.2238 101,470
d.	Aggregated information - Aggregated Volume - Price	N/A
e.	Date of the transaction	23 January 2024
f.	Place of the transaction	XLON

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	Henry Spain Investment Services Limited
2	Reason for notification
a.	Position/Status	PCA of Thomas Spain, Non-Executive Director and Interim Chairman
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	Purchase of Ordinary Shares
c.	Price(s) and volume(s)	Price(s) Volume(s) £0.2330 150,000
d.	Aggregated information - Aggregated Volume - Price	N/A
e.	Date of the transaction	24 January 2024
f.	Place of the transaction	XLON

 

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