Director/PDMR Shareholding

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

5 October 2016

Hastings Group Holdings plc (the "Company")

Director/PDMR Shareholding

The Company announces it has been notified that on 5 October 2016, Richard Brewster, Director of the Company disposed of 1,000,000 ordinary shares of 2 pence each ("Ordinary Shares") in the Company for £2.16 per share.

Following the disposal, Richard Brewster continues to have an interest in 18,133,222 Ordinary Shares, representing approximately 2.8 per cent of the issued share capital of the Company.

This notification is made in order to satisfy both section 793 of the Companies Act 2006 and article 19 of the Market Abuse Regulation.

Hastings Group+44 (0) 142 473 8220Tony Leppard, Company Secretary

Instinctif Partners+44 (0) 207 457 2020

Mike Davies

Nick Woods

Giles Stewart