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Happy snap-up for Photo-Me chief

The French boss has splurged more than £7.5m on shares in the company, taking his stake above 22 per cent
January 5, 2017

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
CompanyDirectorDateNo of sharesPrice (p)Value (£)Holding (shares)Holding (%)
Ashtead  Lucinda Riches20 Dec 165,000155977,9505,0000.001
BCA Marketplace♥ Avril Palmer-Baunack (ch)22 Dec 1610,684186.127519,886702,0050.090
Chesnara*David Brand15 Dec 162,5003007,5005,5000.004
Chesnara*Frank Hughes15 Dec 163,3333009,99915,5460.010
Chesnara*John Deane (ceo)15 Dec 1610,00030030,00019,6770.013
Chesnara*Jane Dale15 Dec 163,3333009,9993,3330.002
Chesnara*David Rimmington (fd)15 Dec 168003002,4008,8480.006
Chesnara*Michael Evans15 Dec 161,2473003,7417,9590.005
Chesnara*Veronica Oak15 Dec 161,0003003,0003,0000.002
Chesnara*Peter Mason (ch)15 Dec 164,00030012,00025,7430.017
Coats Simon Boddie (cfo)22 Dec 16100,00051.551,500100,0000.007
Coats  Nicholas Bull21 Dec 16150,00052.578,750400,0000.028
Cropper (James) M Cropper (ch)16 Dec 1610,0001097.5109,7501,255,70313.275
Falanx  Stuart Bladen (ceo)19 Dec 16310,0007.2522,475310,0000.247
Henderson Kalpana Desai22 Dec 1620,000234.6346,92620,0000.002
Hikma Pharmaceuticals Mohammed A K S Al-Husry16 Dec 1690,73018491,677,5986,968,1802.904
Hikma Pharmaceuticals Mohammed A K S Al-Husry19 Dec 1650,0001790895,0007,018,1802.925
Hikma Pharmaceuticals Mazen Darwazah16 Dec 1690,73018491,677,5988,443,6863.519
Hikma Pharmaceuticals Mazen Darwazah19 Dec 1650,0001790895,0008,493,6863.540
Hikma Pharmaceuticals Said Darwazah (ch & ceo)16 Dec 1690,73018491,677,59814,513,1986.048
Hikma Pharmaceuticals Said Darwazah (ch & ceo)19 Dec 1650,0001790895,00014,563,1986.069
Hill & Smith Mark Reckitt19 Dec 164,0001191.647,6644,0000.005
International Public Partnerships Giles Frost21 Dec 1659,996152.591,494510,0090.045
Merchants Trust (The) Timon Drakesmith20 Dec 1615,000456.1868,42715,0000.014
Micro Focus International♥ Richard Atkins21 Dec 16701215915,1356,8670.003
Micro Focus International Richard Atkins21 Dec 16702215715,1426,1660.003
NEX  Stuart Bridges (fd)16 Dec 1635,000485.4305169,901183,7500.028
NMC Health* B Shetty (ceo)16 Dec 164,007,643137555,105,09151,756,89325.336
Nichols John Gittins15 Dec 161,280155819,9421,2800.003
Photo-Me International Serge Crasnianski (ceo)16 Dec 161,934,644155.753,013,20881,718,09421.764
Photo-Me International Serge Crasnianski (ceo)20 Dec 162,892,6071584,570,31984,610,70122.534
Sanne*Andy Pomfret19 Dec 163,33349016,33253,3330.039
Sanne*Rupert Robson (ch)19 Dec 162,08249010,20214,5820.011
Sanne*Nicola Palios19 Dec 164994902,4455,4990.004
Satellite Solutions Worldwide  Simon Clifton21 Dec 162,500,0007.7192,50033,848,4506.313
Schroder Japan Growth Fund Alan Gibbs15 Dec 1652,330187.70198,224100,0000.080
Severn Trent John Coghlan20 Dec 162,270219949,9172,6700.001
Severn Trent♥ Kevin Beeston19 Dec 162,2442212.890849,6572,2440.001
Sound Energy Marco Fumagalli22 Dec 16225,61372.63163,86366,717,16210.032
Sound Energy Richard Liddell22 Dec 1625,00071.8517,963100,0000.015
Sound Energy James Parsons (ceo)16 Dec 1644,52267.3729,9941,640,9960.247
Sound Energy♥ Marco Fumagalli16 Dec 16774,38768.15527,74566,491,54910.005
Standard Life Melanie Gee22 Dec 1620,000363.272,64020,0000.001
U and I♥  Matthew Weiner (ceo)20 Dec 1635,39917060,178282,7360.226

Sells
CompanyDirectorDateNo of sharesPrice (p)Value (£)Holding (shares)Holding (%)
Baronsmead Venture Trust Peter Lawrence (ch)19 Dec 168,63381.57,036699,3030.403
Baronsmead Venture Trust♥ Peter Lawrence (ch)19 Dec 168,81381.57,183690,4900.398
Gamma Communications Andrew Stone20 Dec 1682,500470387,7501,354,0001.476
Judges Scientific♥ David Barnbrook15 Dec 161,700135022,95018,1360.297
Shanta Gold Robin Fryer19 Dec 1630,00092,700690,0000.118
Telford Homes David Durant21 Dec 1646,650312145,5481,145,7071.527
Telford Homes James Furlong21 Dec 1657,582312179,6561,099,2071.465
Utilitywise Paul Hailes22 Dec 1610,00019419,40035,0010.045
Utilitywise Richard Feigen15 Dec 1658,675190111,48310,0000.013
WANdisco David Richards22 Dec 16145,000200290,0002,638,1537.130
WANdisco David Richards28 Dec 1623,92020047,8402,614,2337.053
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