TVC Chairman increases already sizable stake
3rd Dec 2012 15:55
Shane Rehill, the Executive Chairman of TVC Holdings invested 300k in the AIM-listed investment company, the company announced on Monday. Rehill purchased 450,000 shares at a price of €0.83 each (around 67.16p) on Friday of last week, spending a total of £302,220. The transaction took his total st
Read moreFour Breedon execs invest half a million quid
30th Nov 2012 16:15
Four directors of Breedon Aggregates, the AIM-listed building materials group, topped up their stakes on Thursday, a few days after the company said that full-year results would be in line with market expectations. Collectively, the directors invested a total of half a million pounds in the busines
Read moreThomas Cook Chairman makes purchase following results disappointment
29th Nov 2012 16:48
The non-executive Chairman of Thomas Cook, the FTSE 250 travel company, has made a show of faith in the group as full-year losses widened on higher fuel costs and write-downs. Frank Meysman, who became Chairman one year ago, bought 100,000 shares at 24.57p a time for a total of £24,570. The comp
Read moreSDL head shows faith after profit warning
27th Nov 2012 16:28
The Chairman and Chief Executive of troubled business, translation and communications software company SDL has added 170,532 shares to his stake in the company one day after it issued a profit warning. Mark Lancaster, who also founded the group in 1992, was clearly keen to show his faith in the gr
Read moreGETECH director sells third of stake
20th Nov 2012 16:58
Peter Stephens, a Non-Executive Director of GETECH, an oil services business specialising in the provision of exploration data and geological exploration studies, earned a tidy sum after trading in around a third of his stake in the company. Stephens sold 550,000 ordinary shares at 42.00p each for
Read moreBP director tops up stake as group settles fine
19th Nov 2012 16:29
Frank Bowman, a Non-Executive Director of oil giant BP, purchased 3,600 shares in the company at 420.73p each last week. The £15,146 transaction came just one day after BP announced that it had resolved all criminal claims with the US Department of Justice in relation to the Gulf of Mexico oil spi
Read moreAdvanced Computer Software Chairman sells 445,000 shares
25th Jul 2012 16:16
Michael Jackson, the Chairman of Advanced Computer Software Group, sold 445,376 ordinary shares in the healthcare and business management software company at a price of 55p per share. The £244,957 sale, which was made for "personal reasons", takes Jackson's total stake in the company to just under
Read moreCSF non-exec opens his account
24th Jul 2012 16:00
Richard King, a non-executive director of AIM-listed CSF Group, snapped up 55,000 ordinary shares in the firm on Tuesday, just a few weeks after the firm's full-year results revealed an improvement across all business segments. He bought the shares at 44.75p each for a total consideration of £24,6
Read moreLamprell director sells another load of shares
3rd May 2012 15:20
Scott Doak, the Integration and Development Director of Lamprell, the FTSE 250 oil and gas engineering firm, has once again diminished his stake in the firm, this time selling 200,000 shares. The sale, which follows his decision to drop 21,679 the previous week, was made in the same week the compa
Read moreGlobal Energy rises on production gains
21st Mar 2012 09:20
The South America focused petroleum firm Global Energy Development has cashed in on the rising oil price and boosted production. Revenues for 2011 were £43.1m, up 81% on 2010, while production came in at 519,000 barrels, a rise of 29% on the prior year. Global makes no secret of the fact that the
Read moreSalamander chief executive buys into weakness
14th Oct 2011 17:36
Salamander Energy founder and chief executive James Menzies has spent £41,000 on shares in the south-east Asia-focused oil and gas group. He bought 20,000 shares at 205p a pop. Menzies may have been tempted by the fall in Salamander's share price since he last opened his wallet, buying the same nu
Read moreGlobal Energy Development moves to profit
6th Sep 2011 17:35
Higher production and oil prices helped Latin America focused explorer and producer Global Energy Development into profit in the six months to 30 June. Pre-tax profits totalled £2.64m for the period, against a loss of £1.33m over the same period the previous year. Revenues climbed to £17.1m from £1
Read moreGlobal Energy Development ramps up production in Colombia
20th Jun 2011 11:50
Global Energy Development, a Latin America-focused exploration and production company, has announced a rise in oil production in Colombia. Following a work-over of its Tilodiran 2 and 3 wells production has risen from 1,100 barrels of oil per day (BOPD) to 2,520 BOPD. Gas pressure at the facility
Read moreGlobal urges shareholders to reject HKN's offer
16th Jun 2011 13:28
Global Energy Development's independent directors have urged the shareholders to reject a 72p per share cash offer from HKN, which values the company at £25.8m, saying the offer materially undervalues the oil company. The independent directors, who have been advised by Matrix, do not consider the t
Read moreSmall caps round-up: African Copper, Global Energy Dev, Oxford Bio...
13th Dec 2010 10:24
African Copper rallied again today, up to a nine-month high, forcing the miner to confirm it has received an interim mining licence for the Thakadu deposit in Botswana. "The grant of the full mining licence is pending further discussion and agreement with the government of Botswana," it said Mond
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