Tue, 28th Oct 2014 15:40
Sports Direct International's Chief Executive Dave Forsey and Finance Director Bob Mellors have each netted 6.4m pounds after selling shares from a bonus plan. The sportswear retailer said the pair had exercised options granted to them under the company's executive bonus scheme to buy 1m shares in
Read moreChief Executive at Hiscox, Bronek Masojada, has sold 10,000 shares at 650.50p a piece in the insurance provider. The sale generated £65,050 for Masojada, who joined the company in 1993. For the first half of the year the group posted a pre-tax profit of £180.7m (2012: £125.8m), helped by low ex
Read moreThe FTSE Small Caps index is down 0.1 percent around midday, while the mid caps fall 0.3 percent, but the blue chips gain 0.1 percent. Findel falls 7.3 percent as the home shopping group's broadly in-line trading update leads Seymour Pierce to reduce its full-year 2013 pre-tax profit foreca
Read moreAberdeen Asset Management: Societe Generale downgrades to hold, while its target price of 375p is not altered. Amara Mining: Investec reduces target price from 89p to 83p and reiterates a buy recommendation. Associated British Foods: Jefferies raises target price from 1365p to 1650p keeping a hold
Read moreThe Chief Executive Officer of Diageo, the FTSE 100 drinks giant, has sold another slice of his stake in the company, reducing his holding to 729,582 shares. Paul Walsh, who was appointed to the role of CEO in 2000, traded in 20,000 shares for 1,850.00p each, worth a total of £370,000. The trans
Read moreMark Adorian, a Non-Executive Director of StatPro, has purchased 100,000 ordinary shares in the data solutions provider at 95p each. The £95,000 transaction takes Adorian's total holding to just over 2.6m shares, equal to 4.31% of the issued share capital. At the start of this month StatPro reveal
Read moreLewis Booth, a non-Executive Director of Rolls-Royce, has purchased 7,500 shares of the firm´s stock just one week after the company saw underlying earnings come in ahead of forecasts for the first half. Booth, who was appointed to his role in May last year, bought the shares at 875.50p each for a
Read moreStatPro Group, a provider of portfolio analytics and data solutions for the global asset management industry, saw its profit before tax decline by a fifth in the six months to the end of June following an exceptional charge as part of its restructuring during the period. Revenues grew 3.0% during t
Read morePeter Sands, Chief Executive at Standard Chartered, the Asia-focused banking colossus, earned himself 5.9m pounds-worth of shares in the company following the vesting of four separate reward payments. The pay-out came as the largest part of a £32m bonus paid to 10 of the company's directors. San
Read moreLesley Knox, a non-executive director at SABMiller, the multi-national lager brewing company, has snapped up £63,225-worth of shares in the firm. Knox, 58, is a new recruit to SABMiller, and is also the chairwoman of Alliance Trust and the Grosvenor Group. Earlier today, the company announced th
Read moreDirectors at Philippines-focused gold producer Medusa Mining have upped their stakes amid a weak spell for the company's shares. Managing director Peter Hepburn-Brown took 15,00 shares at A$6.85 (449p) a time, paying a total of just over £67,000. He previously had no shares in the company. Non-ex
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