Personal Group Holdings plc ("the Company")

Exercise of Options and Sale of Shares

Director Shareholding

The company has been informed today by Kenneth Rooney, Deputy Chairman of the following transactions in Ordinary Shares in the Company.

1.    Exercise of options over 35,242 Ordinary Shares in the Company at a price of 283.75 pence per share.

2.    Sale of 35,242 Ordinary Shares, at a price of 557.5 pence per share to Personal Group Trustees Limited (a company wholly owned by the Company which operates the Company's All Employee Share Option Plan (AESOP) and Company's Share Option Plan (CSOP).

Following these transactions, Mr Kenneth Rooney remains interested in 3,333 Ordinary Shares, representing 0.01% of the total Ordinary Shares in issue.

The Company has been informed today by Mark Scanlon, Chief Executive, that he sold 55,000 Ordinary Shares of 5 pence each, on the same day at a price of 557.5 pence per Ordinary Share to Personal Group Trustees Limited. Following this transaction Mr Scanlon remains interested in 1,588 Ordinary Shares representing 0.01% of the total Ordinary Shares in issue.

For more information please contact:

Personal Group Holdings Plc

Mike Dugdale, Chief Financial Officer

+44 (0)1908 605 000

Cenkos Securities Plc

Max Hartley / Stephen Keys (Nomad)

+44 (0)20 7397 8900

Russell Kerr (Sales)

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