French entrepreneur Serge Crasnianski has snapped up more than £7.5m-worth of shares in the photo booth company he runs. The chief executive of Photo-Me International (PHTM), which also has a growing laundry business, bought the shares via two transactions just days before Christmas.
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The first purchase of more than 1.9m shares on 19 December 2016 was worth just north of £3m, while the second purchase, on 22 December 2016, saw the former Top 100 e-millionaires constituent buy up nearly 2.9m shares for £4.6m based on the 158p share price. Mr Crasnianski, also an alumni of the Sunday Times' 1,000 Richest People in Britain, now owns 22.5 per cent of the company's shares.
Buys | |||||||
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Company | Director | Date | No of shares | Price (p) | Value (£) | Holding (shares) | Holding (%) |
Ashtead | Lucinda Riches | 20 Dec 16 | 5,000 | 1559 | 77,950 | 5,000 | 0.001 |
BCA Marketplace♥ | Avril Palmer-Baunack (ch) | 22 Dec 16 | 10,684 | 186.1275 | 19,886 | 702,005 | 0.090 |
Chesnara* | David Brand | 15 Dec 16 | 2,500 | 300 | 7,500 | 5,500 | 0.004 |
Chesnara* | Frank Hughes | 15 Dec 16 | 3,333 | 300 | 9,999 | 15,546 | 0.010 |
Chesnara* | John Deane (ceo) | 15 Dec 16 | 10,000 | 300 | 30,000 | 19,677 | 0.013 |
Chesnara* | Jane Dale | 15 Dec 16 | 3,333 | 300 | 9,999 | 3,333 | 0.002 |
Chesnara* | David Rimmington (fd) | 15 Dec 16 | 800 | 300 | 2,400 | 8,848 | 0.006 |
Chesnara* | Michael Evans | 15 Dec 16 | 1,247 | 300 | 3,741 | 7,959 | 0.005 |
Chesnara* | Veronica Oak | 15 Dec 16 | 1,000 | 300 | 3,000 | 3,000 | 0.002 |
Chesnara* | Peter Mason (ch) | 15 Dec 16 | 4,000 | 300 | 12,000 | 25,743 | 0.017 |
Coats | Simon Boddie (cfo) | 22 Dec 16 | 100,000 | 51.5 | 51,500 | 100,000 | 0.007 |
Coats | Nicholas Bull | 21 Dec 16 | 150,000 | 52.5 | 78,750 | 400,000 | 0.028 |
Cropper (James) | M Cropper (ch) | 16 Dec 16 | 10,000 | 1097.5 | 109,750 | 1,255,703 | 13.275 |
Falanx | Stuart Bladen (ceo) | 19 Dec 16 | 310,000 | 7.25 | 22,475 | 310,000 | 0.247 |
Henderson | Kalpana Desai | 22 Dec 16 | 20,000 | 234.63 | 46,926 | 20,000 | 0.002 |
Hikma Pharmaceuticals | Mohammed A K S Al-Husry | 16 Dec 16 | 90,730 | 1849 | 1,677,598 | 6,968,180 | 2.904 |
Hikma Pharmaceuticals | Mohammed A K S Al-Husry | 19 Dec 16 | 50,000 | 1790 | 895,000 | 7,018,180 | 2.925 |
Hikma Pharmaceuticals | Mazen Darwazah | 16 Dec 16 | 90,730 | 1849 | 1,677,598 | 8,443,686 | 3.519 |
Hikma Pharmaceuticals | Mazen Darwazah | 19 Dec 16 | 50,000 | 1790 | 895,000 | 8,493,686 | 3.540 |
Hikma Pharmaceuticals | Said Darwazah (ch & ceo) | 16 Dec 16 | 90,730 | 1849 | 1,677,598 | 14,513,198 | 6.048 |
Hikma Pharmaceuticals | Said Darwazah (ch & ceo) | 19 Dec 16 | 50,000 | 1790 | 895,000 | 14,563,198 | 6.069 |
Hill & Smith | Mark Reckitt | 19 Dec 16 | 4,000 | 1191.6 | 47,664 | 4,000 | 0.005 |
International Public Partnerships | Giles Frost | 21 Dec 16 | 59,996 | 152.5 | 91,494 | 510,009 | 0.045 |
Merchants Trust (The) | Timon Drakesmith | 20 Dec 16 | 15,000 | 456.18 | 68,427 | 15,000 | 0.014 |
Micro Focus International♥ | Richard Atkins | 21 Dec 16 | 701 | 2159 | 15,135 | 6,867 | 0.003 |
Micro Focus International | Richard Atkins | 21 Dec 16 | 702 | 2157 | 15,142 | 6,166 | 0.003 |
NEX | Stuart Bridges (fd) | 16 Dec 16 | 35,000 | 485.4305 | 169,901 | 183,750 | 0.028 |
NMC Health* | B Shetty (ceo) | 16 Dec 16 | 4,007,643 | 1375 | 55,105,091 | 51,756,893 | 25.336 |
Nichols | John Gittins | 15 Dec 16 | 1,280 | 1558 | 19,942 | 1,280 | 0.003 |
Photo-Me International | Serge Crasnianski (ceo) | 16 Dec 16 | 1,934,644 | 155.75 | 3,013,208 | 81,718,094 | 21.764 |
Photo-Me International | Serge Crasnianski (ceo) | 20 Dec 16 | 2,892,607 | 158 | 4,570,319 | 84,610,701 | 22.534 |
Sanne* | Andy Pomfret | 19 Dec 16 | 3,333 | 490 | 16,332 | 53,333 | 0.039 |
Sanne* | Rupert Robson (ch) | 19 Dec 16 | 2,082 | 490 | 10,202 | 14,582 | 0.011 |
Sanne* | Nicola Palios | 19 Dec 16 | 499 | 490 | 2,445 | 5,499 | 0.004 |
Satellite Solutions Worldwide | Simon Clifton | 21 Dec 16 | 2,500,000 | 7.7 | 192,500 | 33,848,450 | 6.313 |
Schroder Japan Growth Fund | Alan Gibbs | 15 Dec 16 | 52,330 | 187.701 | 98,224 | 100,000 | 0.080 |
Severn Trent | John Coghlan | 20 Dec 16 | 2,270 | 2199 | 49,917 | 2,670 | 0.001 |
Severn Trent♥ | Kevin Beeston | 19 Dec 16 | 2,244 | 2212.8908 | 49,657 | 2,244 | 0.001 |
Sound Energy | Marco Fumagalli | 22 Dec 16 | 225,613 | 72.63 | 163,863 | 66,717,162 | 10.032 |
Sound Energy | Richard Liddell | 22 Dec 16 | 25,000 | 71.85 | 17,963 | 100,000 | 0.015 |
Sound Energy | James Parsons (ceo) | 16 Dec 16 | 44,522 | 67.37 | 29,994 | 1,640,996 | 0.247 |
Sound Energy♥ | Marco Fumagalli | 16 Dec 16 | 774,387 | 68.15 | 527,745 | 66,491,549 | 10.005 |
Standard Life | Melanie Gee | 22 Dec 16 | 20,000 | 363.2 | 72,640 | 20,000 | 0.001 |
U and I♥ | Matthew Weiner (ceo) | 20 Dec 16 | 35,399 | 170 | 60,178 | 282,736 | 0.226 |
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Company | Director | Date | No of shares | Price (p) | Value (£) | Holding (shares) | Holding (%) |
Baronsmead Venture Trust | Peter Lawrence (ch) | 19 Dec 16 | 8,633 | 81.5 | 7,036 | 699,303 | 0.403 |
Baronsmead Venture Trust♥ | Peter Lawrence (ch) | 19 Dec 16 | 8,813 | 81.5 | 7,183 | 690,490 | 0.398 |
Gamma Communications | Andrew Stone | 20 Dec 16 | 82,500 | 470 | 387,750 | 1,354,000 | 1.476 |
Judges Scientific♥ | David Barnbrook | 15 Dec 16 | 1,700 | 1350 | 22,950 | 18,136 | 0.297 |
Shanta Gold | Robin Fryer | 19 Dec 16 | 30,000 | 9 | 2,700 | 690,000 | 0.118 |
Telford Homes | David Durant | 21 Dec 16 | 46,650 | 312 | 145,548 | 1,145,707 | 1.527 |
Telford Homes | James Furlong | 21 Dec 16 | 57,582 | 312 | 179,656 | 1,099,207 | 1.465 |
Utilitywise | Paul Hailes | 22 Dec 16 | 10,000 | 194 | 19,400 | 35,001 | 0.045 |
Utilitywise | Richard Feigen | 15 Dec 16 | 58,675 | 190 | 111,483 | 10,000 | 0.013 |
WANdisco | David Richards | 22 Dec 16 | 145,000 | 200 | 290,000 | 2,638,153 | 7.130 |
WANdisco | David Richards | 28 Dec 16 | 23,920 | 200 | 47,840 | 2,614,233 | 7.053 |
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