A run-up in the share price of Restaurant Group (RTN) in October prompted non-executive director Tony Hughes to lock in recent gains. Mr Hughes, a former managing director of the restaurants division at Mitchells & Butlers (MAB), cashed in half of his 400,000 shares - equivalent to 0.2 per cent of the group's shares in issue.
The group operates a number of restaurant chains, including Frankie & Benny's and Chiquito. The prevailing view is that the hospitality sector will be adversely affected by the implementation of the national living wage in April. But the group's chief executive predicted just a £2m impact in the first year, given many of his staff were already paid above the proposed hourly rate of £7.20. In a sense, the group has stolen a march over some of its rivals.
Buys | |||||||
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Company | Director | Date | No of shares | Price (p) | Value (£) | Holding (shares) | Holding (%) |
Amara Mining | Pete Gardner (cfo) | 15 Oct 15 | 87,183 | 11.47 | 10,000 | 1,223,948 | 0.291 |
Athelney Trust | S Moore | 16 Oct 15 | 5,000 | 240 | 12,000 | 5,000 | 0.252 |
Bunzl | Vanda Murray | 21 Oct 15 | 3,000 | 1,799 | 53,970 | 3,000 | 0.001 |
CLS | Philip Mortstedt | 15 Oct 15 | 1,250 | 1,797 | 22,463 | 1,566 | 0.004 |
Computacenter | Greg Lock (ch) | 21 Oct 15 | 2,500 | 745.5 | 18,638 | 437,500 | 0.357 |
Development Securities | Matthew Weiner (ce) | 21 Oct 15 | 15,000 | 243.75 | 36,563 | 195,713 | 0.157 |
Development Securities | Richard Upton | 21 Oct 15 | 15,000 | 249 | 37,350 | 2,787,699 | 2.231 |
Development Securities | Marcus Shepherd (fd) | 21 Oct 15 | 41,884 | 238.75 | 99,998 | 110,666 | 0.089 |
Dillistone | Jason Starr (ce) | 19 Oct 15 | 12,632 | 79.16 | 9,999 | 3,577,065 | 18.291 |
Dillistone | Julie Pomeroy (fd) | 19 Oct 15 | 12,632 | 79.16 | 9,999 | 63,733 | 0.326 |
Dillistone | Dr Mike Love (ch) | 19 Oct 15 | 126,500 | 79 | 99,935 | 929,754 | 4.754 |
Dunelm | Andy Harrison (ch) | 16 Oct 15 | 53,433 | 928.8 | 496,286 | 53,433 | 0.026 |
Empresaria* | Anthony Martin (ch) | 19 Oct 15 | 1,000,000 | 75 | 750,000 | 13,924,595 | 28.406 |
European Wealth | Kenneth West | 16 Oct 15 | 7,500 | 78.5 | 5,888 | 326,306 | 1.406 |
GAME Digital | Lesley Watkins | 15 Oct 15 | 2,000 | 200 | 4,000 | 5,000 | 0.003 |
GAME Digital | Martyn Gibbs (ce) | 21 Oct 15 | 15,000 | 200.6 | 30,090 | 1,459,911 | 0.867 |
GAME Digital | Mark Gifford (cfo) | 21 Oct 15 | 10,000 | 200.6 | 20,060 | 10,000 | 0.006 |
GAME Digital | Caspar Woolley | 16 Oct 15 | 5,000 | 199.2 | 9,960 | 10,000 | 0.006 |
Genesis Emerging Markets Fund | Helene Ploix | 20 Oct 15 | 7,310 | 468.34 | 34,236 | 15,000 | 0.011 |
Greenko | John Rennocks | 20 Oct 15 | 30,469 | 87 | 26,508 | 74,990 | 0.048 |
Greenko | Vin Murria | 21 Oct 15 | 152,000 | 88 | 133,760 | 452,000 | 0.290 |
Home Retail | Cath Keers | 21 Oct 15 | 5,670 | 131.4 | 7,450 | 48,207 | 0.006 |
Home Retail | Ian Durant | 21 Oct 15 | 5,418 | 131.4 | 7,119 | 45,421 | 0.006 |
Home Retail | Mike Darcey | 21 Oct 15 | 5,418 | 131.4 | 7,119 | 59,719 | 0.007 |
Home Retail♥ | Jacqueline de Rojas | 21 Oct 15 | 5,418 | 131.4 | 7,119 | 26,093 | 0.003 |
Home Retail♥ | John Coombe (ch) | 21 Oct 15 | 10,412 | 131.4 | 13,681 | 151,803 | 0.019 |
Hutchison China Meditech♥ | Christopher Nash | 19 Oct 15 | 4,512 | 2,195 | 99,038 | 36,442 | 0.064 |
Ilika | Mike Inglis (ch) | 21 Oct 15 | 65,000 | 75.5 | 49,075 | 65,000 | 0.099 |
KBC Advanced Technologies♥ | Oliver Scott | 16 Oct 15 | 12,500 | 120 | 15,000 | 10,857,550 | 13.188 |
London Stock Exchange | Donald Brydon (ch) | 15 Oct 15 | 5,000 | 2,477.63 | 123,881 | 5,000 | 0.001 |
Menhaden Capital | Howard Pearce | 20 Oct 15 | 4,957 | 100.85 | 4,999 | 4,957 | 0.006 |
Mercantile Investment Trust (The) | Jeremy Tigue | 15 Oct 15 | 910 | 1,665 | 15,152 | 9,297 | 0.010 |
RM2 International* | John Walsh (ce) | 20 Oct 15 | 4,187,037 | 40 | 1,674,815 | 26,439,717 | 6.648 |
RM2 International* | Ian Molson (ch) | 20 Oct 15 | 1,600,000 | 40 | 640,000 | 11,000,000 | 2.766 |
Satellite Solutions Worldwide | Paul Howard | 19 Oct 15 | 1,050,000 | 3.95 | 41,475 | 1,550,000 | 0.503 |
Sopheon | Barry Mence (ch) | 16 Oct 15 | 44,406 | 84.75 | 37,634 | 1,348,976 | 18.532 |
Sopheon | Barry Mence (ch) | 19 Oct 15 | 22,600 | 82.5 | 18,645 | 1,371,576 | 18.843 |
Sopheon | Stuart Silcock | 19 Oct 15 | 2,400 | 82.5 | 1,980 | 254,627 | 3.498 |
Sopheon | Dr Bernard Al | 16 Oct 15 | 5,594 | 84.75 | 4,741 | 100,000 | 1.374 |
Strat Aero* | Gerard Dempsey (cfo) | 21 Oct 15 | 400,000 | 5 | 20,000 | 400,000 | 0.350 |
Strat Aero* | Tony Dunleavy (ce) | 21 Oct 15 | 1,000,000 | 5 | 50,000 | 1,330,000 | 1.164 |
Strat Aero* | Captain Graham Peck (ch) | 21 Oct 15 | 799,955 | 5 | 39,998 | 6,669,551 | 5.835 |
Strat Aero* | Paul Ryan | 21 Oct 15 | 400,000 | 5 | 20,000 | 400,000 | 0.350 |
Tissue Regenix | Alan Miller | 21 Oct 15 | 400,000 | 16.75 | 67,000 | 21,886,988 | 2.881 |
Transense Technologies | Nigel Rogers | 21 Oct 15 | 500,000 | 1.4 | 7,000 | 2,500,000 | 0.529 |
Transense Technologies♥ | Nigel Rogers | 21 Oct 15 | 500,000 | 1.4 | 7,000 | 3,000,000 | 0.635 |
Vela Technologies | Antony Laiker | 16 Oct 15 | 2,900,000 | 0.17 | 4,930 | 28,316,724 | 4.848 |
Vela Technologies | Brent Fitzpatrick (ch) | 16 Oct 15 | 2,900,000 | 0.17 | 4,930 | 4,400,000 | 0.753 |
Sells | |||||||
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Company | Director | Date | No of shares | Price (p) | Value (£) | Holding (shares) | Holding (%) |
7digital | Ben Drury | 16 Oct 15 | 2,000,000 | 10 | 200,000 | 10,038,631 | 9.279 |
Bioventix | Ian Nicholson (ch) | 19 Oct 15 | 5,000 | 1,115 | 55,750 | 27,000 | 0.535 |
City of London Investment | Carlos Yuste | 20 Oct 15 | 300,000 | 325 | 975,000 | 27,425 | 0.102 |
DJI | Rodney Davis | 20 Oct 15 | 25,000 | 43.9 | 10,975 | 2,768,702 | 1.887 |
Mattioli Woods | Nathan Imlach (fd) | 16 Oct 15 | 15,600 | 612.5 | 95,550 | 152,311 | 0.609 |
Mattioli Woods | Murray Smith | 16 Oct 15 | 10,000 | 612.5 | 61,250 | 213,814 | 0.855 |
Mattioli Woods♥ | Nathan Imlach (fd) | 16 Oct 15 | 14,400 | 612.5 | 88,200 | 137,911 | 0.552 |
Netcall | Michael Jackson (ch) | 21 Oct 15 | 470,000 | 53 | 249,100 | 800,000 | 0.584 |
Restaurant Group (The) | Tony Hughes | 15 Oct 15 | 200,000 | 705 | 1,410,000 | 200,000 | 0.100 |
SuperGroup | James Holder | 20 Oct 15 | 17,875 | 1,403.84 | 250,936 | 9,649,315 | 11.885 |
Whitbread | Christopher Rogers | 21 Oct 15 | 25,751 | 4,846.05 | 1,247,906 | 75,000 | 0.041 |
*Placing/tender/open offer ♥Spouse/connected party ΩIsa/Sipp/trust †Depositary receipts |