Cryo-Save's executive chairman Marc Waeterschoot has spent £1.12m on shares in the cell storage specialist the month after the group warned that full-year results will be below expectations.
Waeterschoot bought 2,977,500 shares at 37.5p each, taking his interest in the company to 9,251,670 shares, or 19.84%.
Shares in Cryo-Save dropped sharply in September after the cell storage specialist warned that full-year results will be below expectations.
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"August volumes were lower than expected, which combined with the delay in price increases in the large markets of Spain and Hungary plus the costs relating to group infrastructure and the Indian and French investments, means that the group's financial performance in 2008, will be less than initially expected," the group said at the time.
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