Glencore's Glasenberg buys another round
11th Jun 2012 15:49
Ivan Glasenberg, the Chief Executive Officer at Glencore International, has stayed true to his word and made another significant share purchase using part of the money he received from the firm's latest dividend payout. The director bought 2.83m shares at an average price of 356.65p for a total of
Read moreMears Chairman sells all of his ordinary shares
23rd Mar 2012 15:39
Bob Holt, Chairman of Mears, a social housing maintenance firm, has exercised share options for over 1,500,000 ordinary shares and subsequently sold two million shares - his entire holding of ordinary shares in the firm. He sold the shares for 250p each for a total of £0.5m. 56-year-old Holt has
Read moreRenew reports 'satisfactory' first quarter
25th Jan 2012 14:20
Renew, an engineering services group supporting UK infrastructure, has reported that trading for the first quarter was 'satisfactory'. The order book at the end of 2011 remained strong at £289m, up slightly from £283m the year before. Engineering Services had an order book of £197m, an increase o
Read morePearson boss stocks up
5th Jan 2012 15:48
Marjorie Scardino, Chief Executive of Financial Times publisher Pearson, has marked her fifteenth anniversary in the role with the purchase of 374 American Depository Receipts (ADRs). ADRs represent the ownership of shares in a non-US company. The purchase was made as part the firm's employee stock
Read moreRenew restructures building activities
14th Mar 2011 18:32
Renew Holdings says that its figures for the six months to March 2011 will be satisfactory and it is on course to meet expectations for the year - excluding redundancy and restructuring costs. The building and engineering company says it intends to withdraw from non-specialist public building proj
Read moreRenew chief exec's wife spends £30,000
16th Feb 2011 17:21
The wife of Renew Holdings' chief executive Brian May has spent £30,000 shares in the specialist engineering and building company. Margaret May took 50,000 shares at 60p a time, which means that Brian May now has a beneficial interest in 405,000 shares in the firm. May became chief executive of Re
Read moreNational Grid boss buys more shares
2nd Feb 2011 17:27
National Grid's chairman Sir John Parker today spent nearly £110,000 building up his stake in the power and gas grid operator. He bought 20,000 shares at 549.5p a time and now has 134,712. National Grid said that its operating profit is "significantly ahead of last year" in its trading statement f
Read moreSmall caps round-up: 600 Group, ILX, Renew...
2nd Feb 2011 10:28
Engineering firm 600 Group says the improvement in its global markets has continued, with order intake since October 25% above the same period in 2009. The confirmed order book was 40% higher. "The recovery of our machine tool and precision engineered component markets in North America has continue
Read moreSmall caps round-up: Patagonia Gold, Charles Stanley, Jubilee Platinum...
26th Jan 2011 11:34
Patagonia Gold has risen on news that final results from the recently completed drill campaign on the COSE project in Argentina have revealed more "exceptionally high grade" gold and silver. A potential new mineralised vein has also been discovered at Cap-Oeste with drill-hole CO-166-D which inters
Read moreLondon close: Miners get a hammering
23rd Nov 2010 16:57
Footsie staved off a triple-digit fall by less than half a point as worries over the situation in Korea and the prospect of other European countries joining Ireland in the queue for a bail-out nagged away at investors all day. Asia-focused bank Standard Chartered was hit by worries over the exch
Read moreSmall caps round-up: Renew, Bango, Samuel Heath...
23rd Nov 2010 11:08
Engineering and construction services firm Renew has had a "satisfactory" operating result for the year ended 30 September in line with expectations. Profit before tax and exceptional items dipped to £4.6m from £5.5m on revenue down to £290.4m from £316.6m a year ago. There's been a 50% increase in
Read moreSmall caps round-up: Provexis, Renew, Source BioSciences...........
31st Mar 2010 16:08
Functional foods developer Provexis expects to have net cash of £7m at the end of March 2010. It has also entered into a three-year, £25m equity financing facility provided by Evolution Securities through its subsidiary Darwin Strategic. This could be used to help finance acquisitions. Renew Holdi
Read moreRenew Holdings sees FY in line
1st Oct 2009 08:33
Building contractor Renew Holdings said it has traded satisfactorily during the second half of the year and expects full year results will be in line with market expectations. Renew provides services for nuclear, rail infrastructure and retail and social housing. The group, along with one of its su
Read moreCoastal Energy's de Combret in buying mood
27th Jul 2009 16:36
Southeast Asia-focused oil and gas explorer Coastal Energy Company kept up its recent rally, almost 40% this month, on news that its chairman opened his account. Bernard de Combret, former deputy chairman of the executive board of French oil giant Total, bought 166,600 Coastal shares at CAN$2.878 e
Read moreSmall caps round-up: Mount Engineering, Oxeco, Renew...
23rd Jul 2009 09:27
Mount Engineering said it is satisfied with its progress in the first six months of the year and expects results to be in line with the prior year first half. "Whilst current market visibility remains unpredictable, effective margin management and overhead cost control is maintaining profitabilit
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