Staffline : £35 million contract wins

RNS Number : 6594S Staffline Group PLC

13 March 2019

For immediate release

13 March 2019

STAFFLINE GROUP PLC ("Staffline" or "the Group")

£35 million contract wins

Staffline, the Recruitment and Training group, is pleased to announce that its PeoplePlus division has been successful in the latest round of Educa'on and Skills Funding Agency's ("ESFA") European Social Fund compe''on, securing contracts worth a total of £35 million over a 27-month period, commencing in April 2019. The contracts cover 10 Local Enterprise Partnership ("LEP") areas across England.

PeoplePlus currently delivers equivalent European Social Fund contracts worth £14 million, so these wins represent an increase of 250% and make PeoplePlus the largest provider of Skills Support for the Unemployed with a market share of c.47%.

Chris Pullen, Chief Executive Officer of Staffline, commented:

"Expanding our presence in training and skills is a key strategic growth priority for our PeoplePlus division. These excellent compe on results build on our outstanding track record of suppor ng unemployed people to move into work, and further demonstrates our con nued success in transi oning PeoplePlus into the UK's leading skills and training provider."

For further information, please contact:

Staffline Group plcwww.stafflinegroupplc.co.uk

via Vigo Communications

Chris Pullen, Chief Executive Officer Michael Watts, Chief Financial Officer

Liberum NOMAD and Joint Brokerwww.liberum.com

020 3100 2222

Steve Pearce / Joshua HughesBerenberg Joint Brokerwww.berenberg.com Chris Bowman / Toby Flaux

020 3207 7800

Vigo Communications Financial PR

www.vigocomms.com

020 7390 [e-mail]

Jeremy Garcia / Antonia Pollock / Charlie Neish

Note for Editors

About Staffline - Recruitment, Training and Support

Enabling the Future of Work™

Staffline is the UK's market leading Recruitment and Training group. It has two divisions:

Recruitment Division

The UK's leading provider of flexible blue-collar workers, supplying over 60,000 staff per day to c. 1,500 private sector clients, across a wide range of industries including agriculture, drinks, driving, food processing, logis'cs and manufacturing. It operates from over 400 locations in UK, Eire and Poland.

Its world leading Customer Experience plaKorm provides op'mised customer-based staffing management solu'ons whilst providing market-leading levels of job satisfaction for workers.

PeoplePlus Division

The leading adult skills and training provider in the UK, delivering appren'ceships, adult educa'on, prison educa'on and skills-based employability programmes across the country.

Education and Training - market leading provider of training courses for private sector Appren'ceships (both Levy and non-Levy) and Government funded Adult Skills programmes.

Employability - top quar'le performer, suppor'ng Government programmes providing back-to-work educa'on and support services to the unemployed.

Jus ce and Community - educa'on and training services for prisoners and ex-offenders, as well as individual support services for carers and people with disabilities, both at home and in the work place.

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