Director Dealings Summary - Week Ended May 1 | ||||||||||||
Company | Name | Position | Number of Shares | Resulting Holding | *Note | GBP Value | ||||||
BUYS | ||||||||||||
BATM | Zvi Marom | CEO | 2 million | 96.4 million | 252,000 | |||||||
AstraZeneca | Shriti Vadera | Non-Executive Director | 3,500 | Undisclosed | Same day as AstraZeneca was granted priority review for BRILINTA (ticagrelor tablets for patients with a history of heart attack). | 161,000 | ||||||
Computacenter | Greg Lock | Chairman | 21,000 | 326,922 | 143,000 | |||||||
River & Mercantile | Kevin Hayes | CFO | 47,287 | 193,932 | 99,000 | |||||||
Imperial Innovations | Linda Wilding | Non-Executive Director | 15,000 | 15,000 | 70,000 | |||||||
Tesco | John Allan | Chairman | 31,082 | Undisclosed | 2 days after Tesco posted biggest loss in company's history. | 70,000 | ||||||
AstraZeneca | Graham Chipchase | Non-Executive Director | 1,100 | Undisclosed | Day before AstraZeneca was granted priority review for BRILINTA. | 51,000 | ||||||
IS Solutions | Peter Simmonds | Deputy Chairman | 91,500 | 91,500 | Will become Chairman later in 2015. | 49,000 | ||||||
DFS Furniture | Luke Mayhew | Non-Executive Director | 15,000 | 19,821 | 41,000 | |||||||
Connect Group | Gary Kennedy | Incoming Chairman | 20,000 | 20,000 | Will become chairman at AGM on May 1. | 30,000 | ||||||
AstraZeneca | Bruce Burlington | Non-Executive Director | 600 | Undisclosed | Day before AstraZeneca was granted priority review for BRILINTA. | 28,000 | ||||||
Oakley Capital | Christopher Wetherhill | Non-Executive Director | 15,000 | 175,000 | 26,000 | |||||||
Swett Group | John Dodds | Chairman | 100,000 | 150,000 | Bought after trading was in line with expectations, but decided to sell Asian business & booked GBP1.6 million charge relating to UK serious fraud office probe. | 24,000 | ||||||
Cenkos Securities | Jeff Hewitt | Non-Executive Director | 11,461 | 48,121 | 23,000 | |||||||
Standard Chartered | Gay Huey Evans | Non-Executive Director | 2,000 | 2,000 | Apppointed in April. | 22,000 | ||||||
Dotdigital | Simone Barratt | CEO | 66,000 | 377,500 | 20,000 | |||||||
Matomy Media | Ilan Shiloah | Chairman | 11,500 | 13.9 million | 17,000 | |||||||
Swett Group | Alan Lovell | Non-Executive Director | 50,000 | 100,000 | Bought after trading was in line with expectations, but decided to sell Asian business & will book GBP1.6 million charge relating to UK serious fraud office probe. | 12,000 | ||||||
Produce Investments | David Naish | Non-Executive Director | 7,000 | 7,000 | 9,600 | |||||||
Shanta Gold | Robin Fryer | Non-Executive Director | 120,000 | 480,000 | 10 days after Shanta downgraded production guidance for the year after fall in Q1 production. | 9,000 | ||||||
Informa | Helen Owers | Non-Executive Director | 1,000 | 1,000 | Owers is also non-executive at PZ Cussons. | 5,700 | ||||||
Sweett Group | Douglas McCormick | CEO | 20,500 | 20,500 | Bought after trading was in line with expectations, but decided to sell Asian business & booked GBP1.6 million charge relating to UK serious fraud office probe. | 4,900 | ||||||
Sweett Group | Patrick Sinclair | CFO | 20,500 | 72,943 | Bought after trading was in line with expectations, but decided to sell Asian business & booked GBP1.6 million charge relating to UK serious fraud office probe. | 4,900 | ||||||
Sweett Group | Kim Berry | Director | 20,500 | 4.5 million | Bought after trading was in line with expectations, but decided to sell Asian business & booked GBP1.6 million charge relating to UK serious fraud office probe. | 4,900 | ||||||
Sweett Group | David Wilton | Non-Executive Director | 20,500 | 65,834 | Bought after trading was in line with expectations, but decided to sell Asian business & will book GBP1.6 million charge relating to UK serious fraud office probe. | 4,900 | ||||||
SELLS | ||||||||||||
Berkeley Group | Anthony Pidgley | Chairman | 750,000 | 6.3 million | 18,800,000 | |||||||
Berkeley Group | Rob Perrins | MD | 250,000 | 1.5 million | 6,300,000 | |||||||
Pearson | Robin Freestone | Director | 100,000 | 151,766 | Sold by Mirima Freestone, a connected person. | 1,300,000 | ||||||
ARM Holdings | Ian Drew | CMO | 30,000 | 131,777 | 359,000 | |||||||
Ricardo | Markus Doerr | Senior Manager | 22,778 | 13,447 | 192,000 | |||||||
British American Tobacco | Kingsley Wheaton | Senior Manager | 5,291 | 21,190 | Same day as revenue fell 5.8% in the first quarter of 2015. | 190,000 | ||||||
IS Solutions | Barrie Clark | Chairman | 76,500 | 491,000 | Will retire later in 2015. | 41,000 | ||||||
*Note: A recent company event around the time of the dealing does not suggest the dealing took place because of that event. When a spouse or related party to a director buys shares, the resulting holding is the beneficial holding of the director. | ||||||||||||
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