Director Dealings Summary - Week Ended June 5 | ||||||||||||
Company | Name | Position | Number of Shares | Resulting Holding | *Note | GBP Value | ||||||
BUYS | ||||||||||||
Croda | Anita Frew | Chairman Designate | 7,500 | 7,500 | Will succeed current Chairman Martin Flower when he retires in September. | 217,500 | ||||||
WH Smith | Carl Cowling | Manager | 6,245 | 6,245 | Day after WH Smith reported rise in total sales in Q3 of its financial year. | 98,484 | ||||||
Wilmington | Bill Howarth | Divisional Executive | 30,000 | 43,449 | 72,600 | |||||||
Homeserve | Mark Morris | Non-Executive Director | 15,312 | 32,812 | 66,607 | |||||||
Aberdeen Asian Smaller Co | Mark Hadsley-Chaplin | Non-Executive Director | 5,000 | 10,000 | 43,700 | |||||||
Threadneedle | David Warr | Chairman | 27,000 | 147,003 | 40,500 | |||||||
Electra Private Equity | Roger Yates | Chairman | 1,000 | 3,000 | 3 days before ex-dividend date. | 32,350 | ||||||
Acal | Nick Salmon | Non-Executive Director | 10,000 | 10,000 | Appointed in February. | 29,900 | ||||||
Pennon | Ian Mcaulay | CEO of Viridor | 9,045 | 2,000 | 28,763 | |||||||
Driver Group | Dave Webster | CEO | 50,000 | 2052088 | Day after swinging to loss. | 27,500 | ||||||
Gable Holdings | William Dewsall | CEO | 10,000 | 24,800,000 | Week after swinging to loss. | 25,900 | ||||||
Amiad Water Systems | Derek Zissman | Non-Executive Director | 12,500 | 12,500 | Appointed in February. | 18,750 | ||||||
Berendsen | Maarit Aarni-Sirviö | Non-Executive Director | 1,400 | 1,400 | 14,336 | |||||||
Brewin Dolphin | Ian Dewar | Non-Executive Director | 3,062 | 6,358 | 9,890 | |||||||
Camco Clean Energy | Jonathan Marren | CFO | 178,041 | 4,700,000 | Same day as Camco agreed deal to sell remaining US carbon credit portfolio. | 9,472 | ||||||
North Midland Construction | Robert Moyle | Chairman | 6,000 | 460,408 | 7,680 | |||||||
Shires Income | Andrew Robson | Non-Executive Director | 3,000 | 8,500 | 7,440 | |||||||
Rentokil Initial | Angela Seymour-Jackson | Non-Executive Director | 4,748 | 10,574 | 6,980 | |||||||
Rosslyn Data Tech | Hugh Cox | Founder | 15,090 | 9,600,000 | 2,264 | |||||||
Treatt | Daemmon Reeve | CEO | 1000 | 126,304 | 1,500 | |||||||
SELLS | ||||||||||||
Booker Group | Richard Rose | Chairman | 900,000 | 10,282 | Stepping down from July 8. Also chairman of Quindell and AO World. | 1,530,000 | ||||||
Clinigen | John Hartup | Non-Executive Director | 23,934 | 10,000 | Week after signing deal with Clovis Oncology. | 154,135 | ||||||
MP Evans | Derek Shaw | Non-Executive Director | 31,000 | 353,065 | 133,300 | |||||||
Jardine Lloyd Thompson | Edward John Lloyd | Divisional CEO | 10,000 | 215,598 | 102,900 | |||||||
Euromoney | Richard Ensor | Chairman | 30,000 | 145,368 | 51,000 | |||||||
John Lewis of Hungerford | John Lewis | Non-Executive Director | 3,500,000 | 69,000,000 | Week after reporting flat Q3 sales. | 29,750 | ||||||
Whitbread | Christopher Rogers | MD of Costa Coffee | 357 | 100,751 | Day after ex-dividend date. | 18,582 | ||||||
*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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