Sales for both Ffastfill and National Grid directors

18th Jun 2012 16:25

The Corporate Development Director of Ffastfill, has sold 1.383m shares in the firm just a fortnight after the company posted a drop in pre-tax profits. Nigel Hartnell ditched the shares for 13.50p a pop, pocketing £186,705 in the process. Revenue for the full year rose from £15.5m to £17.2m, bu

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DS Smith non-exec tops up his stake

30th Jan 2012 16:02

Chairman of the Audit Committee at DS Smith, Jonathan Nicholls, has bought £74,366-worth of shares in the recycled packaging firm. The purchase, which saw the non-executive buy 32,309 shares at 230.17p each, comes less than two weeks after the firm launched an agreed bid for the second largest pack

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Whitbread's Harrison takes a top-up

18th Jul 2011 15:37

Whitbread's chief executive Andy Harrison has taken a top-up in the Costa Coffee and Premier Inn owner's shares, spending nearly £250,000. He took 16,095 shares at 1,543.6p a time and now has 177,768. Harrison's purchase comes the week after Whitbread reported a 9% rise in sales for the first quar

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WH Ireland bosses buy big

5th Apr 2011 16:19

Bosses at WH Ireland had the company they work for in their sights today as they splashed out thousands of pounds on shares in the stockbroker. Chief executive Paul Compton was the biggest spender, taking 670,448 shares at 50p a time. The purchase, which set him back £335,174, takes his holding to

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Bahamas Petroleum director buys

25th Jan 2011 16:45

AIM-quoted Bahamas Petroleum Company's non-executive director Dursley Stott has invested nearly £16,000 in the oil and gas explorer's shares. Stott bought 100,000 shares at 15.825p each. This takes his stake to 315,000 shares. Stott is based in the Isle of Man, where BPC is domiciled, having switc

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Graphite Enterprise NAV/Share 447.9P Vs 464.1P

15th Jul 2010 16:24

LONDON (Dow Jones)--Graphite Enterprise Trust PLC (GPE.LN) said Thursday that in the six months to June 30 its net asset value per share fell by 3.5% to 447.9 pence from 464.1 pence. MAIN FACTS: -Pretax revenue return for the half year GBP552,000 (2009: loss GBP83,000) -Loss per share 13

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Small caps round-up: Europa Oil, Rugby Estates IT, Dunedin Enterprise...

13th Nov 2009 14:52

Europa Oil & Gas is up after starting drilling at the Hykeham-1 exploration well on the PEDL150 licence near Lincoln in the East Midlands. The well is testing the potential for up to 20 million barrels of oil in place in two target horizons. Target depth of just over 1,000m is expected to be reache

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