Aegis director makes double sale

Harold Mitchell, a senior board member of Aegis Group, the FTSE-250 media and digital communications group, has made a double sale of shares in the month following its better-than-expected full year results. Mitchell, who is the Executive Chairman of Aegis Media Pacific, sold 150,000 shares at 5.5p each on April 10th, six days after he sold 400,000 shares for the same price. Together, the sales earned the director £990,365. Mitchell's sale made the most of the boost to the group's share price,which is up over 36% since the same date a year ago.The firm announced in March that it had beaten analyst forecasts for 2011 with profits jumping by a third. Pre-tax profits for 2011 at the firm came in at £161.8m, up 32% on the year before and beating expectations of £148.3m.Earnings per share were 10.1p, up 29% on the previous year, with the company saying it would pay a dividend of 3.2p. Top Director BuysBahamas Petroleum Co (BPC) Director name: Mr Ross McDonaldAmount purchased: 250,000 @ 10.52p Value: £26,300RSM Tenon Group (TNO) Director name: Mr Christopher MerryAmount purchased: 250,000 @ 7.25p Value: £18,125W H Ireland Group (WHI) Director name: Mr Christopher Paul Compton Amount purchased: 15,000 @ 85.00p Value: £12,750Xchanging (XCH) Director name: Mr David BauernfeindAmount purchased: 11,200 @ 96.59p Value: £10,818Top Director SellsHilton Food Group (HFG) Director name: Mr Colin PattenAmount sold: 3,644,315 @ 280.00p Value: £10,204,082Aegis Group (AGS) Director name: Mr Harold MitchellAmount sold: 400,000 @ 183.14p Value: £732,560Morrison (Wm) Supermarkets (MRW) Director name: Mr Richard PennycookAmount sold: 210,030 @ 288.17p Value: £605,243Computacenter (CCC) Director name: Mr Michael J NorrisAmount sold: 122,670 @ 415.05p Value: £509,142Computacenter (CCC) Director name: Mr Tony ConophyAmount sold: 66,770 @ 415.05p Value: £277,129Aegis Group (AGS) Director name: Mr Harold MitchellAmount sold: 150,000 @ 176.59p Value: £264,885W H Ireland Group (WHI) Director name: Dr Richard LeeAmount sold: 90,000 @ 85.00p Value: £76,500NR