16th Mar 2018 17:58
LONDON (Alliance News) - The following is a summary of director dealings reported in London on Friday.----------LONDON (Alliance News) - FTSE 100-listed steel making and mining company
Evraz said Non-Executive Chairman Alexander Abramov sold shares on Thursday.Abramov sold a total of 108,128 shares in three separate transactions at an average price of around
443 pence.The share disposal is worth
GBP478,831 in total.Abramov's beneficial interest now stands at around 302 million shares.Shares closed down 4.0% at 420.90p each on Friday.----------AIM-listed mining company
Ariana Resources osaid Chairman Michael de Villiers bought shares on Thursday. De Villiers acquired 2 million shares at a price
1.33 pence. Following this purchase, De Villiers' total shareholding in the company is 42 million shares representing 4% of the company's issued share capital. Shares closed up 1.4% at 1.37p each on Friday.----------Pharmaceutical company
Allergy Therapeutics said Non-Executive Director Tunde Otulana acquired shares on Thursday. Otulana acquired 25,000 shares at a price of 38.8 US cents each, and now holds 50,000 shares. Allergy Therapeutics closed up 0.7% to
27.20 pence on Friday.----------FTSE 250-listed specialty chemicals company
Elementis said Dennis Valentino, head of its Chromium division, disposed of shares on Friday. The company operates through two segments, specialty products and chromium. Valentino sold 37,466 shares at a price
USD4.3514 each, worth
USD163,030 in total. Shares closed down 0.9% at 310.17p each on Friday.----------
Plastics Capital said Non-Executive Director Keith Butler-Wheelhouse acquired shares in the packaging company in a transaction on Friday. Butler-Wheelhouse acquired on Thursday 12,500 shares at a price of
121.6 pence per share and on Friday purchased 28,500 shares at a price of 122p per share, resulting in an aggregate purchase of 41,000 shares. Following these transactions, Butler-Wheelhouse now has an interest in 289,798 shares, representing approximately 0.74% of the issued share capital. Plastics Capital shares closed down 0.6% to 120.27p on Friday.----------
Triple Point Social Housing REIT said Director Paul Oliver bought 77,967 shares at
102 pence each. His total shareholding was not disclosed. The stock closed down 0.2% at 101.30p Friday.----------Animal genetics company
Genus said Chief Executive Karim Bitar sold shares in the company on Friday. Bitar sold 35,803 shares at a price of
2,330 pence each, in a deal worth about
GBP834,00. Following the transaction, Bitar holds 68,213 shares representing 0.1% of the company, the company said. Genus shares ended 0.4% down at
2,323.00 pence on Friday.----------
Tesco said former Booker Group boss Charles Wilson has acquired
GBP11.1 million worth of shares in the supermarket chain, as he invested the cash portion of Tesco's takeover of Booker into the enlarged business. Wilson acquired 5.1 million shares at
215.5264 pence each on Thursday. Shares in Tesco were 2.0% lower at
209.70 pence on Friday. The holding of Wilson after the deal was not disclosed. Wilson became new Tesco's UK & Ireland retail operations chief executive officer upon its merger with Booker Tesco - the UK's largest supermarket by market share - surprised the market in January 2017 by announcing a
GBP3.7 billion cash and stock deal to buy food wholesaler Booker. Under the deal, Tesco offered a default consideration of 0.861 Tesco shares and
42.6 pence per share in cash for each Booker share. Wilson - Booker CEO since 2005 - elected to receive all his proceeds from the Tesco bid in shares under the mix and match facility. Under the facility, the amount of the takeover received in shares by Wilson was scaled down to 94%. For the remaining cash portion, Wilson elected to ask his broker to invest this into Tesco shares as well. Wilson intends to hold the shares for five years from March 2018.----------
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