Personal Group Holdings plc:
admission to AIM
(Press Release 27th November 2000)

Shares in the employee benefits provider Personal Group Holdings Plc will be admitted to trading on AIM on Monday 27 November in an introduction sponsored by Rowan Dartington & Co. Limited. The introduction will be accompanied by a placing of 1.33 million shares of 5p each from certain institutional investors with employees of the company and a number of private clients of Rowan Dartington at an issue price of 75p. With a total of 30,547,940 shares in issue, the initial market capitalisation is approximately £23 million.

Key Strengths
The Directors consider the Group to have the following key strengths:

• Well established business
• Profitable and cash generative
• Consistent claims to premium ratio
• High proportion of repeat and predictable earnings
• Experienced management team
• Strong balance sheet
• Solid growth prospects