BSS Group finance director Roddy Murray has made his third purchase of shares in the plumbing products distributor in the past four months.
Murray spent £20,733 on 7,482 shares at 277.1p each. That took his stake to 101,015 shares.
Murray bought 7,500 shares at 250.197p each on 4 December and 10,000 shares at 311.4p each on 16 September. Murray has invested just short of £71,000 on BSS shares since the middle of September.
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Murray has been on the BSS board since May 2006 and before that he was finance director at menswear retailer Moss Bros.
BSS reported a 5% decline in revenues to £650.6m in the six months to September 2009. Adjusted pre-tax profit fell from £30.4m to £23.3m. That excludes £1.2m of redundancy costs. BSS is trying to offset the weak economy by reducing its operating costs.
The main operations are gaining market share. Analysts expect full year profits of around £46m.
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