Grant of Options under 2018 Share Scheme

RNS Number : 0999B
Staffline Group PLC
18 September 2018
 

For immediate release

18 September 2018

 

 

 

STAFFLINE GROUP PLC

("Staffline" or the "Group")

 

Grant of Options under 2018 Share Scheme

 

Staffline, the Recruitment and Training organisation, announces the grant of options to employees as part of its Save As You Earn ("SAYE") share scheme for 2018. The scheme is open to all permanent employees who have completed at least six months continuous service, giving them the opportunity to participate in the future growth of the Group via share option arrangements.

 

Eligible employees were invited to subscribe for options over Staffline's ordinary shares of 10p each ("Ordinary Shares") with an exercise price of £9.76, a 20% discount to the closing middle market price of £12.20 on the trading day before the invitation to participate was made. The options have a contract start date of 1 December 2018 and are exercisable between 1 December 2021 and 31 May 2022.

A total of 167 employees elected to participate, and, pursuant to these elections, a total of 73,588 options over Ordinary Shares were granted on 18 September 2018, equating to 0.26% of the current issued share capital of 27,944,389 shares. These shares are expected to be satisfied from the 1,140,400 Ordinary 10p Shares currently held by the Employee Benefit Trust.

Options totaling 5,907 shares were granted to the following four employees who are regarded as Persons Discharging Managerial Responsibilities ("PDMR's"):

 

Reference number

Name

Role

Division

Shares under option in SAYE

1

S Rouse

Managing Director

PeoplePlus

1,844

2

M Underwood

Managing Director

Recruitment

1,844

3

C Glover

Divisional Director

Recruitment

1,106

4

D Hughes

Divisional Director

Recruitment

1,113

 

Details of each transaction can be found in the Annex pages that follow.

 

For further information, please contact:

 

Staffline Group plc

www.stafflinegroupplc.co.uk

Chris Pullen, Chief Executive Officer

Michael Watts, Group Chief Financial Officer

investors@staffline.co.uk

 

07786 265344

07970 215262

 

 

Liberum NOMAD and Joint Broker

www.liberum.com

Steve Pearce / Joshua Hughes

020 3100 2222

 

 

Berenberg Joint Broker

www.berenberg.com

Chris Bowman / Toby Flaux

020 3207 7800

 

 

 

 

Vigo Communications Financial PR and Investor Relations

www.vigocomms.com

Jeremy Garcia / Antonia Pollock / Charlie Neish

staffline@vigocomms.com

020 7390 0230

 

 

 

 

About Staffline - Recruitment, Training and Support

 

Enabling the Future of Work™

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

 

Recruitment Division

 

The UK's leading provider of flexible blue-collar workers, supplying over 60,000 staff per day to c. 1,500 private sector clients, across a wide range of industries including agriculture, drinks, driving, food processing, logistics and manufacturing.  It operates from over 400 locations in UK, Eire and Poland.

 

Its world leading Customer Experience platform provides optimised customer-based staffing management solutions whilst providing market-leading levels of job satisfaction for workers.

 

PeoplePlus Division

 

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

 

Education and Training - market leading provider of training courses for private sector Apprenticeships (both Levy and non-Levy) and Government funded Adult Skills programmes.

 

Employability - top quartile performer, supporting Government programmes providing back-to-work education and support services to the unemployed.

 

Justice and Community - education and training services for prisoners and ex-offenders, as well as individual support services for carers and people with disabilities, both at home and in the work place.

 

 

 

Notification and public disclosure of transactions by persons discharging managerial responsibilities and persons closely associated with them

1

Details of the person discharging managerial responsibilities/person closely associated

 

a)

Name

 

SIMON ROUSE

2

Reason for the notification

 

a)

Position/status

 

MANAGING DIRECTOR - PEOPLEPLUS DIVISION

b)

Initial notification/ Amendment

 

INITIAL NOTIFICATION

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

 

 

 

GB00B040L800

b)

Nature of the transaction

 

GRANT OF OPTIONS TO PURCHASE ORDINARY SHARES OF 10P EACH UNDER THE STAFFLINE GROUP PLC SAVE AS YOU EARN SCHEME 2018

c)

Price(s) and volume(s)

 

 

Price(s)

Volume(s)

£9.76

1,844

d)

Aggregated information

 

-        Aggregated volume

 

-      Price

 

 

NOT APPLICABLE

 

e)

Date of the transaction

 

18 SEPTEMBER 2018

f)

Place of the transaction

 

OFF MARKET

 

 

 

 

Notification and public disclosure of transactions by persons discharging managerial responsibilities and persons closely associated with them

1

Details of the person discharging managerial responsibilities/person closely associated

 

a)

Name

 

MARK UNDERWOOD

2

Reason for the notification

 

a)

Position/status

 

MANAGING DIRECTOR - RECRUITMENT DIVISION

b)

Initial notification/ Amendment

 

INITIAL NOTIFICATION

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

 

 

 

GB00B040L800

b)

Nature of the transaction

 

GRANT OF OPTIONS TO PURCHASE ORDINARY SHARES OF 10P EACH UNDER THE STAFFLINE GROUP PLC SAVE AS YOU EARN SCHEME 2018

c)

Price(s) and volume(s)

 

 

Price(s)

Volume(s)

£9.76

1,844

d)

Aggregated information

 

-        Aggregated volume

 

-      Price

 

 

NOT APPLICABLE

 

e)

Date of the transaction

 

18 SEPTEMBER 2018

f)

Place of the transaction

 

OFF MARKET

 

 

 

Notification and public disclosure of transactions by persons discharging managerial responsibilities and persons closely associated with them

1

Details of the person discharging managerial responsibilities/person closely associated

 

a)

Name

 

CRAIG GLOVER

2

Reason for the notification

 

a)

Position/status

 

DIVISIONAL DIRECTOR - RECRUITMENT DIVISION

b)

Initial notification/ Amendment

 

INITIAL NOTIFICATION

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

 

 

 

GB00B040L800

b)

Nature of the transaction

 

GRANT OF OPTIONS TO PURCHASE ORDINARY SHARES OF 10P EACH UNDER THE STAFFLINE GROUP PLC SAVE AS YOU EARN SCHEME 2018

c)

Price(s) and volume(s)

 

 

Price(s)

Volume(s)

£9.76

1,106

d)

Aggregated information

 

-        Aggregated volume

 

-      Price

 

 

NOT APPLICABLE

 

e)

Date of the transaction

 

18 SEPTEMBER 2018

f)

Place of the transaction

 

OFF MARKET

 

 

 

Notification and public disclosure of transactions by persons discharging managerial responsibilities and persons closely associated with them

1

Details of the person discharging managerial responsibilities/person closely associated

 

a)

Name

 

DYLAN HUGHES

2

Reason for the notification

 

a)

Position/status

 

DIVISIONAL DIRECTOR - RECRUITMENT DIVISION

b)

Initial notification/ Amendment

 

INITIAL NOTIFICATION

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

 

 

 

GB00B040L800

b)

Nature of the transaction

 

GRANT OF OPTIONS TO PURCHASE ORDINARY SHARES OF 10P EACH UNDER THE STAFFLINE GROUP PLC SAVE AS YOU EARN SCHEME 2018

c)

Price(s) and volume(s)

 

 

Price(s)

Volume(s)

£9.76

1,113

d)

Aggregated information

 

-        Aggregated volume

 

-      Price

 

 

NOT APPLICABLE

 

e)

Date of the transaction

 

18 SEPTEMBER 2018

f)

Place of the transaction

 

OFF MARKET

 


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