FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

17 November 2017

Hastings Group Holdings plc (the "Company")

Director/PDMR Shareholding

The Company was notified on 16 November 2017 that the following purchase of Company ordinary shares were made by Capita IRG Trustees Limited on 13 November 2017 on behalf of Persons Discharging Managerial Responsibility ("PDMR") pursuant to the Company's Share Incentive Plan ("SIP") as a result of the Company's dividend that was paid on 10 November 2017.

The SIP is an all-employee share plan arrangement approved by HM Revenue and Customs, under which employees are able to buy ordinary shares in the Company using deductions from salary and/or dividends received in each monthly pay period.

Mr van der Meer no longer actively participates in the SIP but continues to have beneficial interest in Company ordinary shares held on his behalf by Capita IRG Trustees Limited pursuant to the rules of the SIP and therefore receives dividends on those ordinary shares which are reinvested.

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 8220
Tony Leppard, Company Secretary

Instinctif Partners
+44 (0) 207 457 2020
Giles Stewart