Director dealings: Wetherspoon chair, easyJet director make purchases

On the list of director purchases on Tuesday was pub chain JD Wetherspoon, after its outspoken chairman picked up almost a million shares.

The company said Tim Martin bought 968,544 shares on 1 September, in a single transaction on the London Stock Exchange.

He picked them up at a price of 700.4075p each, valuing the transaction at £6,783,754.82.

Following the transaction, Wetherspoon said Tim Martin and his connected persons had an interest of 31,743,253 of its shares, representing around 24.65% of its issued share capital.

Elsewhere, easyJet disclosed that one of its independent directors had bought more than 17,000 shares.

It said senior independent director Sue Clark purchased 17,281 shares on 4 September, in a single transaction on the London Stock Exchange.

Clark paid 435p for each share, valuing the transaction at a total of £75,172.35.

At 1355 BST, shares in JD Wetherspoon were down 1.85% at 688.5p, while those in easyJet were up 0.19% at 432.91p.

Reporting by Josh White for Sharecast.com.

Top Director Buys

Wetherspoon (j.d.) (JDW)
Director name: Martin,Timothy (Tim)
Amount purchased: 968,544 @ 700.41p
Value: �6,783,754.87

Easyjet (EZJ)
Director name: Clark,Sue
Amount purchased: 17,281 @ 435.00p
Value: �75,172.35

Gfinity (GFIN)
Director name: Halley,David
Amount purchased: 3,840,000 @ 0.14p
Value: �5,376.00

Gfinity (GFIN)
Director name: Halley,David
Amount purchased: 3,840,000 @ 0.13p
Value: �4,992.00

Sareum Holdings (SAR)
Director name: Birch,Clive
Amount purchased: 2,479 @ 82.27p
Value: �2,039.47

Sareum Holdings (SAR)
Director name: Birch,Clive
Amount purchased: 2,151 @ 83.22p
Value: �1,790.06

Greggs (GRG)
Director name: Currie,Roisin
Amount purchased: 88 @ 1,424.00p
Value: �1,253.12

Bloomsbury Publishing (BMY)
Director name: Bason,John
Amount purchased: 248 @ 424.80p
Value: �1,053.50