Empresaria Group PLC Transaction in Own Shares (8522Z)

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RNS Number : 8522Z

Empresaria Group PLC

19 December 2017

Empresaria Group plc ("Empresaria" or the "Group")

Transaction in Own Shares & Total Voting Rights

Empresaria (AIM: EMR), the international specialist staffing group, announces that today, 19 December 2017, it purchased 23,000 of its ordinary shares of 5 pence each ("Ordinary Shares") at a price of 98 pence per Ordinary Share.

Subject to price and availability, the Group intends to purchase additional Ordinary Shares in the market. Such purchases will be limited to an aggregate market value of GBP156,000 and are expected to conclude in January 2018. Further announcements will be made in due course.

All of the Ordinary Shares purchased will be transferred to the Empresaria Employee Benefit Trust. The Company intends that Ordinary Shares transferred to the Empresaria Employee Benefit Trust will be used to satisfy the exercise of options vested under the Company's Long Term Incentive Plan.

Following the above transactions, the Company has 49,019,132 Ordinary Shares in issue, of which 96,500 are held by the Company as treasury shares until they are transferred to the Empresaria Employee Benefit Trust, which is expected to take place by the middle of January 2018. Therefore, the total number of voting rights in the Company is 48,922,632.

Enquiries:

 
Empresaria Group plc                    via Redleaf 
 Joost Kreulen, Chief Executive 
 Officer 
 Spencer Wreford, Group Finance 
 Director & Chief Operating Officer 
Arden Partners (Nominated Adviser 
 and Broker) 
 John Llewellyn-Lloyd / Steve Douglas 
 / Ciaran Walsh                         020 7614 5900 
Redleaf Communications (Financial       020 7382 4730 
 PR)                                     empresaria@redleafpr.com 
 Elisabeth Cowell

Notes for editors:

-- Empresaria Group plc is an international specialist staffing group with 18 brands operating in 20 countries across the globe including UK, Germany, Japan, India, UAE, Indonesia, Chile, Australia, Thailand, Singapore, Finland, USA, New Zealand, China, Malaysia, Vietnam and the Philippines.

-- Empresaria offers temporary/contract and permanent staffing solutions as well as Offshore Recruitment Services in seven key sectors, being Technical & Industrial, Aviation services, IT & Design, Professional services, Healthcare, Executive search and Retail.

-- Empresaria applies a multi brand, management equity philosophy and business model, with group company management teams holding significant equity in their own business.

-- Empresaria is listed on AIM under ticker EMR. For more information: empresaria.com

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