Former Just Eat boss pockets nearly £5m from share sale

The former chief executive of Just Eat has pocketed just under £5m from the sale of his shares in the online food order and delivery service.

David Buttress, who stepped down from the role of CEO back in February, sold 784,649 shares at an average price of 635p each.

Buttress, who is now a non-executive director at Just Eat, was awarded 1.03m shares as part of the company’s Joint Share Ownership Plan. He has retained 250,000 of these, meaning that his direct shareholding in the company stands at 750,000.

At 0835 BST, Just Eat shares were down 0.1% to 634.50p.