New director invests £100,000 in LMS
8th Oct 2010 17:04
Recently appointed non-executive director Mark Sebba has invested nearly £100,000 in LMS Capital shares. Sebba has acquired 210,000 at 47p each - a total cost of £98,700. He did not own any shares in LMS prior to the purchase. Sebba is chief executive of NET-A-PORTER.com, the luxury women's glob
Read moreBig Yellow founder sells
30th Sep 2010 16:52
The wife of a Big Yellow non-executive director has sold £1.56m worth of shares in the self storage business. Deborah Burks, the wife of Philip Burks, sold 500,000 shares at an average price of 311.8p a share between 24 September and 29 September. This cuts Burks' stake to 4.67%. Burks was the fo
Read moreCLS founder buys shares
21st Sep 2010 16:54
Sten Mortstedt, the executive chairman of CLS Holdings, has increased his stake in the property investor through his family and charity trust. The purchase of 10,000 shares at 520p each cost £52,000 and took Mortstedt's stake to 53.14%. This purchase follows last week's tender offer at 625p a share
Read moreDomino Printing's Herbert offloads shares
20th Sep 2010 17:33
Andrew Herbert, finance director of Domino Printing has taken advantage of a rise in the company's share price following a positive trading statement to sell a large chunk of shares in the provider of industrial ink jet and laser printing equipment. He pocketed nearly £260,000 from the sale of 49,1
Read moreC&W Communications bosses buy
11th Jun 2010 16:40
Two executive directors of Cable & Wireless Communications have taken advantage of the shares going ex-dividend on Wednesday and added to their shareholdings. The final dividend payment of 3.34p a share is the first dividend since Cable & Wireless Worldwide was spun off. Chief executive Tony Ric
Read moreNon-exec's wife buys GKN shares
10th May 2010 16:33
The wife of Mike Turner, the senior independent non-executive director of GKN, has bought 60,000 shares in the engineer. Jean Turner paid 133.41p a share and the total investment was just over £80,000. The husband and wife have a total holding of 160,000 GKN shares. Last August, Turner bought 10
Read moreNew Kingfisher exec swoops for shares
7th May 2010 11:45
Andrew Bonfield, who was appointed to the board of Kingfisher in February, has opened his account with the home improvement retail group. The non-executive director bought 10,000 shares at 245.15p a time in the B&Q owner, paying a total of £24,515. Bonfield was the chief financial officer of Cadbu
Read moreSeverfield-Rowen FD buys
4th May 2010 16:45
Severfield-Rowen's recently appointed finance director has made his first investment in the structural steel firm. Alan Dunsmore joined Severfield-Rowen from Smiths Group in March. He has invested £22,400 in 10,000 shares. Severfield-Rowen says that its order book was worth £241m at the end of A
Read moreRexam executives add to holdings
16th Mar 2010 16:46
Can maker Rexam's new chief executive and finance director have both increased their shareholdings in the company. Chief executive Graham Chipchase bought 47,811 shares at 291.9p a share. This £140,000 investment took his stake to 164,345 shares. Chipchase originally joined Rexam as finance direc
Read morePetrofac director sells before demerger
12th Mar 2010 16:51
Michael Press has raised £1.4m from selling shares in oil services provider Petrofac ahead of the proposed demerger of its oil and gas assets. Press is the senior independent non-executive director on the board of Petrofac. He sold 120,000 shares at 1173.65p each. He retains 120,000 shares. This i
Read moreCLS returns to year profit
11th Mar 2010 13:26
Property investment group CLS Holdings swung into the black in 2009 and increased net asset value by 19%, impressing analysts along the way. There was a profit before tax of £18.5m compared with a £142.1m loss the year before when numbers were hit by a £103m write-down on the value of property. Ad
Read moreAnite non-exec buys for ISA
9th Dec 2009 15:45
Non-executive director David Hurst-Brown has acquired 74,445 shares in software company Anite for his ISA. This more than trebled his shareholding to 110,000 shares. He will benefit from tax free dividends in his ISA, starting with the 0.3p a share interim on 19 February. Hurst-Brown made his sh
Read moreDr Chu increases RCG stake
8th Dec 2009 16:30
RCG Holdings chief executive Dr Raymond Chu is buying shares in the Hong Kong-based biometric and RFiD technology firm for the second day running. He bought 60,000 at 87.82p a share and followed this up with a further 50,000 at 86.85p a share. This has cost just over £96,000. Dr Chu owns 6.89% of
Read moreRightmove chairman's £1.24m gain
1st Dec 2009 15:06
Scott Forbes, chairman of residential property website operator Rightmove, has exercised options over 600,000 shares and immediately sold them all. The exercise price was 335p a share so there was a gain of 206.32p a share. That is an overall profit of £1.24m. Forbes retains 619,000 shares, or 0
Read moreLondon Stock Exchange chairman buys despite technical glitch
26th Nov 2009 16:38
London Stock Exchange chairman Chris Gibson-Smith decided to add to his stake on the day that the London Stock Exchange's trading facilities were unavailable for more than three hours. He spent just under £100,000 on shares at 769.85p a share. That takes his stake in the London Stock Exchange to 63,
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