Rightmove 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,
Read moreRBS boss Hester sells shares
24th Nov 2009 16:16
Royal Bank of Scotland chief executive Stephen Hester has sold £94,000 of shares in order to finance the income tax and National Insurance payable on the release of 610,688 restricted shares. He retains 359,802 of those released shares. Hester had previously raised £102,000 and £53,566 from share
Read moreFirstGroup FD buys initial stake
12th Nov 2009 15:43
Recently appointed FirstGroup finance director Jeff Carr has not let the industrial dispute at the bus and train operator's Thameslink subsidiary put him off buying his first shares in the group. Carr spent £58,198 on 15,000 shares. Carr was previously finance director of budget airline easyJet. H
Read moreDebenhams finance chief sells
29th Oct 2009 16:41
Debenhams finance director Christopher Woodhouse has sold £7.24m worth of shares in the department stores operator. The share sales took place between 22 and 28 October. Woodhouse is left with 3.15m shares, which are equivalent to 0.24% of Debenhams. The previous trading activity in the shares was
Read moreDiscount shares for new Finsbury Food boss
22nd Oct 2009 15:44
Cakes and speciality breads maker Finsbury Food's new chief executive has been issued 1.04m shares at 19.25p a share as part of his remuneration package. He received a further 201,000 shares for nothing, taking his total stake to 1.25m shares. At the current share price of 28.5p, Duffy's additional
Read moreSirius directors pick up 6m shares
15th Oct 2009 16:28
Sirius Petroleum is at its highest in 3½ years on news that directors have bought £300,000 of shares in the AIM-listed oil company. Mike Hirschfield, former group finance executive of Lupus Capital, snapped up 3.1m shares at 5p each, costing him £155,000. Fellow director Toby Hayward shelled out £
Read moreThorntons chairman fattens stake
8th Oct 2009 16:05
The chairman of Thorntons has spent £50,000 on shares in the chocolate retailer on the day it revealed "solid" first quarter numbers. It was revealed today that John von Spreckelsen put his hand in his pocket Wednesday after telling the market Thorntons had a solid three months to end September.
Read moreInterbulk exec builds holding
2nd Oct 2009 17:05
InterBulk, an expert at moving liquid and dry bulk materials, saw executive director Bill Thomson spend £33,000 to raise his stake in the firm. Thomson bought 950,000 at 3.5p each to raise his holdings to 5.4m shares, which represents 1.78% of the company. Non-executive director Graeme Bissett saw
Read moreGrid finance chief sells again
24th Sep 2009 17:14
Gas and electricity network operator National Grid has sailed through the turbulence of the past year relatively unscathed. The share price now is still lower than this time in 2008, but has bounced strongly since April and finance director Steve Lucas is taking advantage to sell his second chunk
Read moreSainsbury's new chair Tyler opens account
17th Sep 2009 16:29
New Sainsbury's chairman David Tyler wasted no time in opening his account, snapping up £167,000 of shares in the supermarket chain today. The former finance boss of GUS, who joins the board at the start of next month and becomes chairman on 1 November, paid 334.3p each for 50,000 shares. Tyler ta
Read moreJames Crosby buys Misys shares
27th Aug 2009 16:37
Sir James Crosby, the newly appointed non-executive director of Misys, has bought £99,144 worth of shares in the financial services and healthcare software provider. Crosby, who joined the board in January from HBOS where he was chief executive from 2001 to 2006, acquired 53,912 shares at 183.90p e
Read moreBrendan Murtagh cuts Kingspan stake
10th Jun 2009 16:53
A surge in the share price to a seven-month high has convinced Kingspan Group co-founder and director Brendan Murtagh to cash in part of his stake. Murtagh, who along with elder brother Eugene set up the Irish insulation board maker in 1972, sold 500,000 shares at €4.75 each, netting €2.4m. The sh
Read moreVodafone's Sir John Bond spends £116,000
26th May 2009 15:34
Vodafone's chairman Sir John Bond has upped his stake in the mobile phone company substantially, spending £116,000 on shares. He paid 116p a time for 100,000 shares in the firm and now has 337,345. Bond became chairman of Vodafone in 2006 after stepping down as chairman of HSBC, having worked at t
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