Personal Group Holdings plc : Directors Purchase of Shares

03 January 2012

Personal Group Holdings Plc ("the Company")

DIRECTORS PURCHASE OF SHARES

Personal Group Holdings Plc operates an Inland Revenue approved All Employee Share Ownership Plan (AESOP) which allows employees and directors the opportunity to purchase shares in the Company currently held by Personal Group Trustees Limited.

The twentieth allocation period ended on 31 December 2011 and the following directors have been allocated shares as follows:

Director	Price	Shares Allocated	Total Number of shares held at 1 January 2012	% Holding
Dr J P Barber Mr K Rooney Mr R Green Mr C Curling	262.0p 262.0p 262.0p 262.0p	570 570 556 411	356,199 256,258 49,268 27,926	1.18 0.85 0.16 0.09

Under the Rules of the AESOP, the share price at which the shares are allocated is the lower of the mid-market value at the start and end of the relevant accumulation period.

DIRECTOR SHAREHOLDING

The Company has been informed today by Kenneth Rooney, Deputy Chairman that on 3 January 2012 he purchased 4,628 ordinary shares of 5 pence each for his SIPP representing 0.02% of the issued share capital of the Company, at a price of 263.6 pence per ordinary share.

Following this transaction, Mr Rooney is interested in 260,886 shares, representing 0.87% of the total shares in issue.

Further enquiries:

Personal Group Holdings Plc
John Barber, Financial Director	[phone]
Cenkos Securities Plc
Stephen Keys	[phone]
Media enquiries:
Abchurch Communications
Joanne Shears / Mark Dixon	[phone]
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