Dealing in Company shares

Hydrogen Group plc ("Hydrogen", the "Group")

Dealing in Company shares

Hydrogen Group, the global specialist recruitment group, announces that on 17 December 2018, the Company purchased 150,000 ordinary shares of £0.01 each in the capital of the Company ("Shares") at a price of 60.0 pence per Share.

The Shares are to be held in treasury and will be utilised to satisfy the vesting of awards made under the Company's minority interest share scheme. Following this dealing, the total number of Ordinary Shares held as treasury shares by the Company is 385,000.

Pursuant to the requirements of the Disclosure Guidance and Transparency Rules, the total number of voting rights in respect of each class of share in issue and admitted to trading on AIM at the date of this announcement is as follows:

Note:

1 Excludes the 385,000 Shares held in treasury and 1,162,051 Shares held by the Company's Employee Benefit Trust

The voting rights figure may be used by shareholders as the denominator for the calculations by which they will determine if they are required to notify their interest in, or a change to their interest in, the Company, under the Disclosure Guidance and Transparency Rules.

 Enquiries:

Hydrogen Group plc 020 7090 7702

Ian Temple CEO

John Hunter, COO & CFO

Shore Capital (NOMAD and Joint Broker) 020 7408 4090

Edward Mansfield / James Thomas

Whitman Howard Limited (Joint Broker) 020 7659 1234

Hugh Rich

Notes to Editors:

Hydrogen Group's mission is to empower people's careers whilst powering businesses by providing their key people from a proven global platform with clients' in over 50 countries. We deliver by building market leading specialist teams that develop a deep understanding of candidate and clients' needs and developing solutions.

http://www.hydrogengroup.com