OREANDA-NEWS. Personal Group (AIM:PGH), a leading provider of employee benefits and employee related insurance products in the UK, is pleased to announce the appointment of George Farrow as Commercial Relationships Director.

Prior to working in the Employee Benefits Sector, George spent over 25 years in corporate banking both in the UK and New York for NatWest and Lloyds TSB. During his time at Lloyds, he was tasked with establishing a new employee benefits service, developing Bringme, a sector leading voluntary benefits product, before managing its sale to Asperity in 2007.  In 2009, George joined Asperity's Board (now known as Reward Gateway) initially as Client Services Director and then subsequently becoming Chief Operating Officer.  George was attracted to Personal Group's expansive offering including voluntary benefits, insurance products and salary sacrifice home technology and mobile phones.

Commercial Relationships Director is a new role, aimed at progressing the growth of hapi, Personal Group's easy to use online benefits platform.  George will also support PG Mobile propositions and the current business development side of the Group.

David Walker, Chief Commercial Officer at Personal Group commented: "We are delighted to be able to welcome George to the Personal Group family. He brings with him a wealth of experience in the employee benefits sector, which will help the company to progress through the next stage of its evolution.  His combined knowledge of the wider finance industry and reward space will help the Group foster new, and support existing, commercial relationships going forward."

Commenting on his appointment, George said: "I am excited to be at a Company with such great potential and I look forward to playing my part in making Personal Group the go to benefits provider.  The Company is at the forefront of employee services, centred around its new hapi platform, alongside the recent acquisitions of Lets Connect and PG Mobile.  No other provider in the market can offer the multi-faceted proposition that Personal Group does."

With over 30 years' experience of looking after its customers' employees, Personal Group Holdings Plc (AIM: PGH) is a leading provider of employee benefits and employee related insurance products, offering benefits programmes to over 2 million employees across the UK.

Personal Group's innovative approach to using technology to deliver its programmes, combined with its face-to-face method of communicating with employees, makes its offering compelling to blue chip clients across the UK as a way of attracting, retaining and motivating employees.  The Group tailors its packages to include insurance products such as hospital and convalescence plans, death benefit and income protection plans, as well as lifestyle benefits such as holiday and retail discounts, health and wellbeing benefits and a range of tax efficient benefits.

Personal Group can also supply home technology via salary sacrifice through its subsidiary Let's Connect.  Offering the latest iPads and other tablets, home computers and laptops, smart phones and smart TVs is a highly engaging benefit from which both the employer and employee can profit. In April 2015 the Group established its own Mobile Virtual Network Operator (MVNO) called Personal Group Mobile Ltd. which was achieved through the acquisition of the assets of shebang Technologies Ltd. This means that home technology, including handsets and airtime, can be provided via salary sacrifice with a reduction of c10-47% on costs to its client's employees.

Personal Group has a strong client base across a range of sectors including transport, where it works with the likes of Network Rail, Stagecoach and EYMS Group Ltd, and healthcare, where clients include Four Seasons Health Care, Priory Group and Spire Healthcare. The Group also covers logistics, with companies such as TNT Express and Bibby, and motoring with Manheim and JCT600 as clients. In addition the Group also has a strong presence in food manufacturing and service and clients include 2 Sisters Food Group and Young's Seafood.

With over 520 clients the Group has grown considerably and provides engaging and effective benefits packages across a breadth of sectors.