Founder and long-time chief executive of Asos (ASC) Nick Robertson has continued to slowly peel himself away from the business. He has already handed over the reins to Nick Beighton, who joined the company in 2009 as its chief financial officer, but has also recently sold a chunk of his shares in the online retailer .
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Mr Robertson sold more than 1.3 shares at a price of 3,525p, which generated around £46m in sale proceeds. But the move shouldn't rattle investors' nerves given that he retains a 6.6 per cent stake in the company and remains a non-executive director.
| Buys | |||||||
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| Company | Director | Date | No of shares | Price (p) | Value (£) | Holding (shares) | Holding (%) |
| Alecto Minerals * | Mark Jones (ce) | 01 Jun 16 | 12,500,000 | 0.08 | 10,000 | 25,750,000 | 0.577 |
| Be Heard | Peter Scott (ch) | 27 May 16 | 645,161 | 3.10 | 20,000 | 16,644,776 | 2.552 |
| Be Heard | Rodger Sargent | 26 May 16 | 2,419,355 | 3.10 | 75,000 | 8,151,355 | 1.250 |
| BlackRock World Mining Trust Ω | Ian Cockerill (ch) | 27 May 16 | 8,653 | 229.80 | 19,885 | 36,789 | 0.021 |
| British Land Co | Aubrey Adams | 01 Jun 16 | 10,000 | 730 | 73,000 | 30,000 | 0.003 |
| Caledonia Investments ♥ | William Wyatt (ce) | 26 May 16 | 1,000 | 2,410 | 24,100 | 1,084,654 | 1.959 |
| Capital & Regional ♥ | Louis Norval | 31 May 16 | 2,000,000 | 60 | 1,200,000 | 133,960,303 | 19.143 |
| Dods | Sir William Wells | 26 May 16 | 400,000 | 11.75 | 47,000 | 2,472,000 | 0.726 |
| Electra Private Equity | Edward Bramson (ce) | 26 May 16 | 42,719 | 3,794 | 1,620,759 | 11,420,493 | 28.359 |
| Greka Engineering & Technology ♥ | Randeep Grewal (ch & ce) | 01 Jun 16 | 1,250,000 | 0.80 | 10,000 | 359,701,230 | 87.813 |
| Greka Engineering & Technology ♥ | Randeep Grewal (ch & ce) | 26 May 16 | 1,278,669 | 0.80 | 10,229 | 357,849,230 | 87.361 |
| Gresham Computing ♥ | MME Royde | 26 May 16 | 60,000 | 99.33 | 59,600 | 7,067,664 | 11.170 |
| Harworth | Andrew Cunningham | 01 Jun 16 | 15,757 | 95.19 | 14,999 | 15,757 | 0.005 |
| Homeserve | Mark Morris | 26 May 16 | 25,862 | 488.40 | 126,310 | 60,093 | 0.020 |
| Hostelworld | Andy McCue | 31 May 16 | 25,000 | 181.50 | 45,375 | 25,000 | 0.026 |
| Hostelworld | Feargal Mooney (ce) | 27 May 16 | 84,000 | 180.25 | 151,410 | 240,033 | 0.251 |
| HSBC Holdings | Dr. Joachim Faber | 31 May 16 | 20,827 | 449.52 | 93,622 | 66,605 | <0.001 |
| Ithaca Energy Inc | Jack Lee (ch) | 30 May 16 | 16,900 | 65.49 | 11,068 | 1,649,500 | 0.401 |
| Ithaca Energy Inc | Jack Lee (ch) | 27 May 16 | 82,600 | 65.59 | 54,174 | 1,632,600 | 0.397 |
| Marshall Motor Holdings | Daksha Gupta (ce) | 26 May 16 | 7,700 | 193.80 | 14,923 | 701,210 | 0.908 |
| Marshall Motor Holdings ♥ | Daksha Gupta (ce) | 26 May 16 | 7,700 | 193.80 | 14,923 | 708,910 | 0.918 |
| Minds + Machines | Guy Elliott (ch) | 26 May 16 | 300,000 | 10 | 30,000 | 23,300,000 | 3.080 |
| Porta Communications ♥ | Bob Morton (ch) | 26 May 16 | 1,500,000 | 5.75 | 86,250 | 44,436,318 | 15.922 |
| Primary Health Properties | Nicholas Wiles | 26 May 16 | 25,000 | 106.50 | 26,626 | 25,000 | 0.004 |
| R E A Holdings | MA Parry | 01 Jun 16 | 5,325 | 285 | 15,176 | 31,147 | 0.085 |
| R E A Holdings ♥ | MA Parry | 01 Jun 16 | 6,196 | 285 | 17,659 | 37,343 | 0.102 |
| Restaurant Group (The) | Graham Clemett | 01 Jun 16 | 14,218 | 351 | 49,905 | 14,218 | 0.007 |
| Sinclair Pharma | Jean-Charles Tschudin | 27 May 16 | 97,000 | 36.25 | 35,163 | 3,350,140 | 0.674 |
| St Ives | Nigel Pocklington | 31 May 16 | 10,000 | 100.25 | 10,025 | 10,000 | 0.007 |
| Surgical Innovations | Nigel Rogers (ch) | 26 May 16 | 1,140,000 | 1.75 | 19,950 | 2,905,273 | 0.596 |
| Surgical Innovations | Paul Hardy | 26 May 16 | 1,140,000 | 1.75 | 19,950 | 2,913,973 | 0.598 |
| Telit Communications | Enrico Testa (ch) | 27 May 16 | 100,000 | 226.50 | 226,500 | 1,155,500 | 1.006 |
| Treatt | Daemmon Reeve (ce) | 26 May 16 | 8,103 | 187 | 15,153 | 152,435 | 0.289 |
| Vesuvius | Douglas Hurt | 31 May 16 | 9,000 | 347.17 | 31,246 | 9,000 | 0.003 |
| Vesuvius ♥ | Douglas Hurt | 31 May 16 | 9,000 | 347.17 | 31,246 | 18,000 | 0.007 |
| Witan Investment Trust | RW Boyle | 27 May 16 | 2,067 | 732.78 | 15,147 | 54,729 | 0.030 |
| Sells | |||||||
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| Company | Director | Date | No of shares | Price (p) | Value (£) | Holding (shares) | Holding (%) |
| ASOS | Nicholas Robertson | 26 May 16 | 1,305,000 | 3,525 | 46,001,250 | 5,496,414 | 6.588 |
| Centamin | Josef El-Raghy (ch) | 31 May 16 | 12,595,714 | 98 | 12,343,800 | 58,849,372 | 5.108 |
| Daily Mail and General Trust | K J Beatty | 27 May 16 | 36,057 | 667.58 | 240,708 | 95,926 | 0.028 |
| RTC | Andy Pendlebury (ce) | 01 Jun 16 | 252,500 | 70 | 176,750 | 798,663 | 5.570 |
| RTC | Sarah Dye (fd) | 01 Jun 16 | 100,000 | 69 | 69,000 | 43,000 | 0.300 |
| Zoopla Property ♥ † | Robin Klein | 27 May 16 | 14,411 | 322.12 | 46,421 | 512,052 | 0.123 |
| Zoopla Property ♥ † | Robin Klein | 27 May 16 | 46,358 | 320.40 | 148,531 | 465,694 | 0.111 |
| Zoopla Property ♥ † | Robin Klein | 31 May 16 | 48,814 | 329.01 | 160,601 | 416,880 | 0.100 |
| Zoopla Property ♥ † | Robin Klein | 26 May 16 | 113,364 | 332.76 | 377,230 | 526,463 | 0.126 |
*Placing/tender/open offer ♥ spouse/connected party Ω ISA/SIPP/Trust/ † Local Globe IV (transferee) and Kilda Inv's (transferor), both connected persons of R Klein | |||||||
