LONDON (SHARECAST) - Patricia Thomas, the Operations Director at Domino's Pizza UK & Ireland, the main operating subsidiary of Domino's Pizza, sold 100,000 ordinary shares in the company on the same day it reported a slowdown in like-for-like sales growth in the third quarter.
Thomas disposed of the shares at an average price of 537p each, earning a total of £537,000.
System sales for the 13 weeks to September 23rd were up by 7.9% to £136.4m from £127.0m in the corresponding period of last year, with year to date system sales up by 10.0% to £424.1m (2011: £385.4m).
Like-for-like sales in the 660 mature stores in the UK and Republic of Ireland continued to grow. In the UK only, like-for-like (LFL) sales for the period were up by 3.7%, versus 4.1% the year before and 5.7% in the first six months of the financial year. LFL sales in euros for the Republic of Ireland were down 2.1%, an improvement on the 4.1% decline seen in the corresponding period of last year but a reversal of the 2.9% increase in LFL sales seen in the first half of the current financial year.
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CLS Holdings (CLI)
Director name: Mr Sten A Mortstedt
Amount purchased: 5,000 @ 721.00p
Value: £36,050
Environmental Recycling Technologies (ENRT)
Director name: Mr Lee Anthony Clayton
Amount purchased: 1,375,000 @ 2.15p
Value: £29,562
Helical Bar (HLCL)
Director name: Mr Michael O'Donnell
Amount purchased: 16,000 @ 183.50p
Value: £29,360
Helical Bar (HLCL)
Director name: Mr Richard Grant
Amount purchased: 15,000 @ 187.00p
Value: £28,050
Dexion Trading Ltd. (DTL)
Director name: Mrs Carol P Goodwin
Amount purchased: 20,000 @ 121.96p
Value: £24,392
Environmental Recycling Technologies (ENRT)
Director name: Mr Kenneth Williams Brooks
Amount purchased: 916,667 @ 2.15p
Value: £19,708
Real Estate Investors (RLE)
Director name: Major William Wyatt
Amount purchased: 25,000 @ 40.00p
Value: £10,000
Top Director Sells
Diageo (DGE)
Director name: Mr Paul S Walsh
Amount sold: 164,717 @ 1,747.00p
Value: £2,877,606
Diageo (DGE)
Director name: Mr Ivan Menezes
Amount sold: 60,496 @ 1,743.78p
Value: £1,054,917
Aberdeen Asset Management (ADN)
Director name: Mr Martin J Gilbert
Amount sold: 500,000 @ 308.20p
Value: £1,541,000
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Director name: Ms Deirdre Mahlan
Amount sold: 27,576 @ 1,743.78p
Value: £480,865
LONDON (SHARECAST) - Patricia Thomas, the Operations Director at Domino's Pizza UK & Ireland, the main operating subsidiary of Domino's Pizza, sold 100,000 ordinary shares in the company on the same day it reported a slowdown in like-for-like sales growth in the third quarter.
