Following a strong trading update earlier this month, Lindsay Page, finance director of Ted Baker (TED), has offloaded almost £1m-worth of shares. The 45,000 share sale at 2,050p leaves Mr Page with 81,000 shares as well as 58,000 nil-cost incentive-scheme options.
The recent trading update from Ted Baker, which covered the unseasonally warm 13 weeks to 8 November, illustrated the attractions of its must-have 'lifestyle' fashion brand. While mid-market peers such as Next and Marks & Spencer lost sales due to the Indian summer in September, Ted was able to report hearty growth of 16 per cent.
As well as the strong trading in its UK stores and wholesale business, analysts point to the company's significant international growth potential. Ted Baker's international presence is currently small compared with other lifestyle brands. Recent openings abroad have included new stores in Las Vegas and Toronto.
Buys | |||||||
Company | Director | Date | No of shares | Price (p) | Value (£) | Holding (shares) | Holding (%) |
3i | David Hutchison | 13 Nov 14 | 50,000 | 407.2 | 203,600 | 50,966 | 0.005 |
3i | Simon Borrows (ce) | 13 Nov 14 | 500,000 | 406.83 | 2,034,139 | 9,409,332 | 0.968 |
Atlantic Coal ♥ | Steve Best (see sale deal) | 19 Nov 14 | 192,307,692 | 0.13 | 250,000 | 758,914,292 | 16.277 |
Belvoir Lettings | Nick Leeming | 18 Nov 14 | 15,500 | 126.5 | 19,608 | 15,500 | 0.065 |
BlueRock Diamonds | John Kilham | 14 Nov 14 | 150,000 | 11.4 | 17,100 | 150,000 | 0.476 |
Castings | GB Wainwright | 17 Nov 14 | 7,000 | 406.75 | 28,473 | 91,261 | 0.209 |
Castings | GB Wainwright | 18 Nov 14 | 5,000 | 407.5 | 20,375 | 96,261 | 0.221 |
Castleton Technology * | Tony Weaver | 18 Nov 14 | 109,090,909 | 1.1 | 1,200,000 | 269,956,989 | 23.362 |
Castleton Technology * | Ian Smith (ce) | 18 Nov 14 | 109,090,909 | 1.1 | 1,200,000 | 269,956,989 | 23.362 |
Castleton Technology * | Phil Kelly | 18 Nov 14 | 2,727,723 | 1.1 | 30,005 | 2,727,723 | 0.236 |
CityFibre Infrastructure Holdings | Sally Davis | 14 Nov 14 | 21,998 | 71.72 | 15,777 | 253,779 | 0.241 |
Coal of Africa | Peter Cordin | 14 Nov 14 | 500,000 | 3.33 | 16,638 | 1,371,059 | 0.106 |
Elementis | Steve Good | 14 Nov 14 | 10,000 | 264 | 26,400 | 10,000 | 0.002 |
Energy XXI | Scott Griffiths | 18 Nov 14 | 10,000 | 663 | 66,300 | 60,967 | 0.065 |
Fenner ♥ | Richard Perry (fd) | 18 Nov 14 | 10,000 | 267.67 | 26,767 | 661,701 | 0.341 |
Ferrum Crescent * | Edward Nealon (ch) | 14 Nov 14 | 10,871,508 | 0.44 | 48,234 | 20,212,115 | 4.141 |
Ferrum Crescent * | Tom Revy (ce) | 14 Nov 14 | 2,717,877 | 0.44 | 12,059 | 2,717,877 | 0.557 |
Flybe | Saad Hammad (ce) | 13 Nov 14 | 45,200 | 110.5 | 49,946 | 272,472 | 0.126 |
Flybe | Liz McMeikan | 14 Nov 14 | 10,000 | 113.25 | 11,325 | 10,000 | 0.005 |
Flybe | Philip de Klerk (cfo) | 13 Nov 14 | 22,250 | 110.5 | 24,586 | 94,250 | 0.044 |
Goals Soccer Centres | Philips Burks | 17 Nov 14 | 50,000 | 218 | 109,000 | 471,228 | 0.806 |
Golden Saint Resources | David McDonald | 14 Nov 14 | 1,400,000 | 0.92 | 12,880 | 1,420,000 | 0.316 |
Hummingbird Resources | Russell King (ch) | 17 Nov 14 | 50,000 | 38.5 | 19,250 | 50,000 | 0.059 |
ICAP ♥ | Michael Spencer (ce) | 19 Nov 14 | 250,000 | 395.95 | 989,875 | 109,619,544 | 16.907 |
Interserve | Nicholas Salmon | 17 Nov 14 | 5,000 | 579.59 | 28,980 | 5,000 | 0.003 |
Interserve | Russell King | 18 Nov 14 | 3,000 | 584 | 17,520 | 3,000 | 0.002 |
Ithaca Energy Inc | Jack Lee (ch) | 14 Nov 14 | 100,000 | 85.81 | 85,813 | 1,200,000 | 0.364 |
KBC Advanced Technologies ♥ | Oliver Scott | 19 Nov 14 | 15,000 | 90 | 13,500 | 9,370,928 | 11.488 |
Mears | Peter Dicks | 13 Nov 14 | 10,000 | 387.7 | 38,770 | 33,298 | 0.033 |
Mears | Andrew Smith (fd) | 18 Nov 14 | 5,000 | 365.2 | 18,260 | 110,000 | 0.109 |
Norcros ♥ | Martin Towers (ch) | 14 Nov 14 | 187,966 | 15.874 | 29,838 | 1,214,208 | 0.204 |
Northbridge Industrial Services | Peter Harris (ch) | 17 Nov 14 | 10,000 | 554.5 | 55,450 | 1,120,000 | 6.074 |
Panther Securities | Peter Kellner | 17 Nov 14 | 5,000 | 320 | 16,000 | 22,000 | 0.126 |
Premier Foods | David Beever (ch) | 13 Nov 14 | 30,000 | 38.5 | 11,550 | 304,881 | 0.037 |
Premier Oil | R Rose (fd) | 13 Nov 14 | 15,000 | 244.99 | 36,748 | 16,208 | 0.003 |
Punch Taverns | Stephen Billingham (ch) | 13 Nov 14 | 32,194 | 154.5 | 49,740 | 32,194 | 0.015 |
PureCircle * | Peter Lai Hock Meng | 13 Nov 14 | 5,500 | 550 | 30,250 | 200,100 | 0.118 |
PureCircle * | Christopher Pratt | 13 Nov 14 | 5,500 | 550 | 30,250 | 692,416 | 0.408 |
PureCircle * | Magomet Malsagov (ce) | 13 Nov 14 | 11,300 | 550 | 62,150 | 14,866,912 | 8.759 |
PureCircle * | Oliver Maes | 13 Nov 14 | 7,200 | 550 | 39,600 | 418,510 | 0.247 |
PureCircle * | Paul Selway-Swift (ch) | 13 Nov 14 | 5,500 | 550 | 30,250 | 207,800 | 0.122 |
PureCircle * | William Mitchell (cfo) | 13 Nov 14 | 12,000 | 550 | 66,000 | 936,540 | 0.552 |
Reed Elsevier † | Linda Sanford | 18 Nov 14 | 3,100 | 1,071.14 | 33,205 | 6,700 | 0.001 |
Rio Tinto | Paul Tellier | 14 Nov 14 | 1,097 | 3,002.48 | 32,937 | 20,575 | 0.001 |
SacOil Holdings | SH Muller | 13 Nov 14 | 478,003 | 2.10 | 10,018 | 1,056,006 | 0.032 |
SnackTime ♥ * | Boris Belotserkovsky | 14 Nov 14 | 12,000,000 | 15 | 1,800,000 | 15,800,000 | 49.146 |
St Modwen Properties | Ian Bull | 13 Nov 14 | 15,000 | 373.75 | 56,063 | 15,000 | 0.007 |
UK Mail | Guy Buswell (ce) | 18 Nov 14 | 18,310 | 405 | 74,156 | 286,117 | 0.523 |
Vedanta Resources | Tom Albanese (ce) | 14 Nov 14 | 7,950 | 791.86 | 62,953 | 73,200 | 0.027 |
Volex | Christoph Eisenhardt (ce) | 13 Nov 14 | 45,802 | 65.5 | 30,000 | 143,166 | 0.159 |
Volex | Daren Morris | 13 Nov 14 | 30,000 | 66 | 19,800 | 150,909 | 0.167 |
Sells | |||||||
Company | Director | Date | No of shares | Price (p) | Value (£) | Holding (shares) | Holding (%) |
Atlantic Coal ♥ | Steve Best | 19 Nov 14 | 96,153,846 | 0.13 | 125,000 | 397,553,294 | 8.527 |
Cropper (James) ♥ | Martin Thompson | 19 Nov 14 | 3,500 | 385 | 13,475 | 36,693 | 0.401 |
EVRAZ | Alexander Abramov (ch) | 13 Nov 14 | 394,236 | 12,764 | 50,320,283 | 328,170,157 | 21.783 |
EVRAZ | Alexander Frolov (ce) | 13 Nov 14 | 196,823 | 12,764 | 25,122,488 | 163,870,710 | 10.877 |
Ted Baker | Lindsay Page (fd) | 18 Nov 14 | 45,000 | 2,050.0 | 922,500 | 81,039 | 0.186 |
WH Smith | Robert Moorhead (fd) | 18 Nov 14 | 97,715 | 1,240.05 | 1,211,715 | 402,676 | 0.341 |
*placing/tender/open offer ♥spouse/connected party †Approved SIP |