Director/PDMR Shareholding & Treasury Shares

22 June 2015

PENNA CONSULTING PLC

("Penna" or "the Company")

Director/PDMR Shareholding

and

Treasury Shares

Penna Consulting plc, the international human resources consulting group, was notified on 19 June 2015 that Garry Browning, the Company CEO, exercised his right to acquire 95,000 shares at an exercise price of 115.5p per ordinary share under the Company's Executive Share Option Scheme. In addition, the Company was notified that on 19 June 2015, Gary Browning sold 95,000 shares at a price of 172p per ordinary Share. Following these transactions, Mr Browning remains beneficially interested in 61,727 ordinary shares representing approximately 0.24 per cent. of the Company's enlarged issued share capital.

The issue of the shares to Mr Browning, together with an additional 90,000 ordinary shares issued pursuant to the exercise of shares under the Company's share option plans are being satisfied by the re-issue of ordinary shares which were held as treasury shares.

Following this re-issue, the total number of ordinary shares held as treasury shares is 243,049 Ordinary 5p shares and the Company has a total of 25,832,055 Ordinary 5p shares in issue (excluding shares held in Treasury).

The above figure of 25,832,055 ordinary shares 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 Penna under the Disclosure and Transparency Rules.

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