CEO of blinkx shows faith after issuing profit warning
3rd Jul 2014 15:54
The Chief Executive Officer of internet company blinkx has made a show of faith with the purchase of 250,000 shares following Tuesday's profit warning. Subhransu Mukherjee, who joined the group in 2011, paid 34p a shares for a total spend of £85,000. Shares in the firm plunged on Tuesday after t
Read moreDivisional director at Euromoney Institutional Investor halves interest
4th Mar 2014 16:15
Euromoney Institutional Investor, the business-to-business media group, announced Tuesday that its Managing Director of the Training division reduced his interest in the company by half. On behalf of his wife, Daniel Cohen sold 20,000 shares at a trade value of 1,282.00p. The £256,400 disposal low
Read moreIncoming Experian CEO sells nearly half of vested shares
28th Jan 2014 16:01
Brian Cassin, who was this month unveiled as the incoming Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Experian, has disposed of a number of shares after they vested under the company's Recruitment & Retention Plan. Of the 26,799 shares that vested, Cassin, who is currently Group Chief Financial Officer, trad
Read moreAberdeen non-exec shows support after disappointing update
27th Jan 2014 16:30
A Non-Executive Director of Aberdeen Asset Management last week bought a stake in the FTSE 100-listed group worth 60,000 pounds, it was announced on Monday. Richard Mully, who has sat on the board since April 2012, acquired 15,000 shares at 400p a go. The purchase came just a week after the grou
Read moreVedanta's Anil Agarwal ramps up stake, again
24th Jan 2014 16:25
In an announcement made after the close of trade on Thursday, Vedanta Resources announced that Executive Chairman Anil Agarwal had once again added to his already gargantuan stake in the mining behemoth - marking his second purchase of the week. The transaction came the same day he told his Twitte
Read moreRurelec non-exec nearly doubles stake, Alent's Larsberg continues to build stake
25th Nov 2013 16:14
Rurelec, which owns, operates and develops power generation capacity internationally, announced on Monday that at the end of last week Larry Coben, an independent Non-Executive Director, purchased 400,000 ordinary shares in the group at 13.25p each. The £53,000 purchase takes Coben's stake in the
Read moredotDigital directors sell to satisfy institutional demand
29th Oct 2012 15:56
Three directors at dotDigital, which provides digital software services to marketing professionals, have each sold four million shares in the company to partially satisfy demand for 22m shares from 'a major institution', at a price of 13p each. Chief Executive and Finance Director Peter Simmonds c
Read moreFinance Director at Hargreaves sells shares
2nd May 2012 15:59
Tracey Taylor, Group Finance Director of Hargreaves Lansdown, has ditched 8,700 shares in the firm just two weeks after the company unveiled record results for the first quarter of 2012. Taylor, a member of the Hargreaves board since 2008, sold the shares for 520p each, alongside a familiy member
Read moreGE Pension Trust sells shares in London and Stamford for £74m
8th Dec 2011 13:23
General Electric Pension Trust has completed the sale of its ordinary shares in London & Stamford Property. The firm said that due to high demand for the shares, it was decided to increase the number of shares to be sold to 73,984,060, representing the entirety of the London & Stamford shares held
Read moreGalliford Try's Greg Fitzgerald builds stake
9th Jun 2011 16:16
Galliford Try's chief executive Greg Fitzgerald has added to his stake in the housebuilder and construction firm, splashing out more than £400,000. He took 83,675 shares at 487p a pop, and now has 748,285, nearly 1% of the company. Fitzgerald, 46, was head of Galliford's housebuilding division unt
Read moreNorth America boss offloads Pearson shares
2nd Mar 2011 17:47
Will Ethridge, chief executive of Financial Times publisher Pearson's North American education division, has sold a big chunk of shares in the company. He disposed of 33,000 American Depositary Receipts (ADRs) for $16.83 (£1,033p) a time or a total of nearly £350,000. News of the share sale comes
Read moreTyler sells Experian shares
1st Feb 2011 16:52
Experian non-executive David Tyler has raised £386,000 from selling shares in the credit checking company. Tyler was finance director of GUS before it was split into Home Retail Group and Experian, where he became a non-executive director in July 2006 - three months before it floated at 560p a sha
Read moreG4S's Gibson secures nearly £500,000
20th Oct 2010 16:06
Grahame Gibson, chief operating officer of security group G4S, has sold 180,000 shares at 265.81p each for £478,458. Gibson has been involved in the security industry for 27 years, having joined the group's UK operating company in 1983 as the finance director. Since then, he has held a number of o
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 moreFiberweb boss buys
13th Sep 2010 17:07
Chief executive Daniel Dayan has increased his stake in nonwoven products supplier Fiberweb. Dayan has invested nearly £80,000 in 129,000 shares at 62p each. That takes his stake to just over 1.14m shares. Finance director Daniel Adams acquired 96,000 shares at the same price - an investment of
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