Van Elle Holdings plc

('Van Elle', the 'Company' or the 'Group')

Framework Award & Rail Investor Presentation

Van Elle Holdings plc (AIM: VANL), the UK's largest ground engineering contractor, has been appointed to the Piling framework for the West of Leeds section of the Transpennine Route Upgrade (TRU) programme.

TRU is a multi-billion-pound investment programme that will deliver reliability, capacity and journey time improvements between Manchester and York via Huddersfield and Leeds and is a key commitment in the government's £96bn Integrated Rail Plan (IRP).

The West of Leeds Alliance (TRU West) is responsible for the transformation of the railway between Manchester and Leeds and is being delivered by an alliance of Network Rail, Arup, Amey OWR, BAM and Siemens. TRU West will undertake the electrification and re-signalling of the 42 miles of railway connecting Manchester and Leeds via Huddersfield, and will be working on over a dozen stations along the route.

Mark Cutler, Chief Executive of Van Elle said: "We are very excited to be supporting the TRU West upgrade, which represents a complex array of projects that suit our breadth of expertise in the rail sector, while working in a collaborative environment which allows us to provide early engineering advice and cost effective solutions for this transformative infrastructure programme."

Rail Investor Presentation: 3.00pm, Tuesday 19 July 2022

Mark Cutler (Chief Executive) and members of the management team will host a presentation to discuss the Company's rail operations and future opportunities at 3.00pm on 19 July 2022. The presentation will be hosted through the digital platform Investor Meet Company.

Investors can sign up to Investor Meet Company for free and add to meet Van Elle Holdings plc via the following link https://www.investormeetcompany.com/van-elle-holdings-plc/register-investor. Investors who have already registered and added to meet the Company will automatically be invited. 

Questions can be submitted pre-event to vanelle@walbrookpr.com or in real time during the presentation via the "Ask a Question" function.

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About Van Elle Holdings plc:

Van Elle Holdings is the UK's largest specialist geotechnical engineering contractor. The Company provides a range of ground engineering techniques and services including - ground investigation, general and specialist piling, rail geotechnical engineering, modular foundations, and ground improvement and stabilisation services.

Van Elle operates through three divisions: general piling, specialist piling and ground engineering; and is focused on three end markets: residential and housing, infrastructure and regional construction - across which the Group has completed more than 20,000 projects over the last 35 years.

General piling provides a range of larger piling and ground engineering solutions for open-site construction projects. Specialist piling provides a range of geotechnical solutions in operationally constrained environments including on-track rail applications. Ground engineering services offers a range of ground investigation and geotechnical services and modular foundation solutions such as Smartfoot®. Van Elle has a market-leading reputation and the UK's largest rig fleet of 115 rigs.

Having floated on AIM in 2016 it now has a strong national presence, diversified offering and market-leading brand name.