Issue of Shares and Total Voting Rights

RNS Number : 5457Q

Staffline Group PLC

06 June 2018

 

 For immediate release                                                                                                                                                     06 June 2018

Staffline Group plc

('Staffline' or 'the Company')

Issue of Shares and Total Voting Rights

Staffline (AIM: STAF) announces that it has issued 95,000 new ordinary shares of 10p each in the Company ("New Ordinary Shares") to satisfy obligations under the Group's 2018 Joint Share Ownership Plan.

An application has been made for the New Ordinary Shares to be admitted on the AIM market of the London Stock Exchange, which is expected to take effect to take effect on 12 June 2018.

Following the issue and allotment, the Company's issued share capital will comprise 27,944,389 ordinary shares of 10p each, a figure which may be used by shareholders as the denominator for the calculations by which they will determine if they are required to notify their interest in, or change to their interest in, the Company. 

For further information, please contact:
Staffline Group plc
Chris Pullen, Chief Executive Officer	07786 265344
Mike Watts, Group Chief Financial Officer	07970 215262
www.stafflinegroupplc.co.uk [e-mail]
Liberum
NOMAD and Joint Broker
Steve Pearce / Joshua Hughes www.liberum.com	020 3100 2222
Berenberg Joint Broker Chris Bowman / Toby Flaux www.berenberg.com	020 3207 7800
Buchanan PR and Communications
Richard Oldworth/Jamie Hooper/Madeleine Seacombe www.buchanan.uk.com [e-mail]	020 7466 5000

About Staffline

"Enabling the future of work"

Staffline is a leading workforce recruitment and management organisation providing services, mainly in the UK and Eire, to both Government and commercial customers. The Recruitment division (previously 'Staffing') supplied up to 52,000 workers per day in 2017 to more than 1,500 clients. The PeoplePlus division is a leading provider to both Central and Local Government, as well as commercial customers, offering a wide range of services to help and support in the Employability (Welfare to Work), Justice, Communities and Skills arenas.

Recruitment

Specialising in providing complete labour solutions in agriculture, food processing, manufacturing, e-retail, driving and the logistics sectors, the Recruitment business operates from over 400 locations in the UK, Eire and Poland. The Recruitment services include:

·     Staffline OnSite, based on clients' premises and providing both blue and white collar, managed, temporary workforces

·     Driving Plus, providing HGV drivers to the driving industry

·     Staffline Agriculture, providing workers to the UK farming and horticulture sectors

·     Staffline Express, our high street branch based operation

·     Brightwork, a recruitment business based in Scotland specialising in temporary and permanent jobs to the drinks industry

·     Diamond Recruitment, one of the largest providers of recruitment services in Northern Ireland

PeoplePlus

A trusted partner in delivering skills, employability and well-being services. Contracts span Central, Local and Devolved Government and the Private Sector, including:

Employability:

·     Work Programme, prime contractor in nine regions and sub-contractor in three regions in England and Wales

·     Fair Start Scotland, prime contractor in two regions commencing April 2018

·    New Enterprise Allowance (business start-up support), prime contractor in three regions of England and Scotland and a sub-contractor in Wales

·     Steps to Success, prime contractor in Northern Ireland, an employment programme to build skills

·    Tackling Youth Unemployment through the MyGo service in Suffolk, the Youth Promise Plus in Birmingham and the Wirral Youth Employment Gateway

·     Building Employment through Education, working in Schools in Northern Ireland

Education and Training services:

·     Prime contractor to the Education and Skills Funding Agency, Welsh Government and Skills Development Scotland, providing Adult Education and Apprenticeships 

·    Delivering Apprenticeships programmes for the Private Sector, via the Apprenticeship Levy and non-levy programmes   

Justice and Community services:

·   Ministry of Justice, Transforming Rehabilitation in Warwickshire and West Mercia, delivering rehabilitation services

·   Delivery of education and training to prisoners in ten prisons in the East of England and London

·   Independent Living Services, supporting 3,500 disabled people lead independent lives

·   Access To Work, providing adaptation in the work place for people with disabilities - national contract.

·   Support for the users of Prison Visitor Centres for the Northern Ireland Prison Service

·   Carers Hubs in Stoke and Staffordshire

 

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