HMV chief executive Simon Fox's wife Clementine spent almost £100,000 lifting her stake in the CD and DVD retailer today.
She bought 92,667 shares at 107p a time, taking her holding to just under 185,000 shares. Combined with Simon Fox's holding of about 251,000 shares, the couple now have around just over 0.1% of the company.
Shares in the company fell Tuesday, as investors took profits after a strong set of full-year results. Profit before tax and exceptional items from continuing operations grew 25.2% to £56.6m in the year to 26 April 2008 from £45.2m the year before.
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During the period HMV concentrated on improving its website and trialling its 'next generation' store format, to be rolled out this year and next.
"One year into our transformation programme, we are ahead of where we had planned to be, although there remains much more for us to do," said Fox.
Top Director Buys
Thomson Reuters (TRIL)
Director name: Mr W. Geoffrey Beattie
Amount purchased: 168,000 @ 1,464.03p
Value: £2,459,570
Speedy Hire (SDY)
Director name: Mr Steve Corcoran
Amount purchased: 27,166 @ 559.00p
Value: £151,858
Speedy Hire (SDY)
Director name: Mr Michael McGrath
Amount purchased: 20,423 @ 559.00p
Value: £114,165
HMV Group (HMV)
Director name: Mr Simon Fox
Amount purchased: 92,667 @ 107.00p
Value: £99,154
Speedy Hire (SDY)
Director name: Mr Claudio Veritiero
Amount purchased: 16,532 @ 559.00p
Value: £92,414
Mano River Resources (MANA)
Director name: Mr David Barry Evans
Amount purchased: 200,000 @ 10.80p
Value: £21,600
Vertu Motors (VTU)
Director name: Mr Robert Forrester
Amount purchased: 70,000 @ 28.00p
Value: £19,600
Next (NXT)
Director name: Mr Jonathan Dawson
Amount purchased: 2,000 @ 832.00p
Value: £16,640
BSS Group (BTSM)
Director name: Mr Alan Ball
Amount purchased: 5,000 @ 279.50p
Value: £13,975
Mediterranean Oil & Gas (MOG)
Director name: Mr Anthony Augustine Trevisan
Amount purchased: 10,000 @ 138.00p
Value: £13,800
Top Director Sells
Veris (VERI)
Director name: Mr Martin McMahon
Amount sold: 300,000 @ 103.59p
Value: £310,770
Caledonia Investments (CLDN)
Director name: Major William Wyatt
Amount sold: 13,348 @ 1,812.50p
Value: £241,932
Speedy Hire (SDY)
Director name: Mr Steve Corcoran
Amount sold: 14,678 @ 563.00p
Value: £82,637
Speedy Hire (SDY)
Director name: Mr Claudio Veritiero
Amount sold: 2,049 @ 563.00p
Value: £11,536
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