Director dealings: Mporium's incoming director picks up more than 425,000 shares

Nicholas Bertolotti, non-executive director of mobile first technology firm Mporium, purchased 425,170 ordinary shares in the group on Monday, lightening his pockets by almost £35,000 in the process.

With a price tag of 8.23p each, Bertolotti spent a total of £34,999.99 on the purchase that left him with a total of 0.072% of the London-based tech company's voting share capital.

Nick, who has spent over 25 years advising companies in the Technology, Media and Telecoms sector, was appointed to the board of Mporium just last week, on 23 February.

In its interim report card back in August 2017, Mporium posted a 21% increase in revenue to £1.1m, driven by an increase in technology and other recurring revenue, and a reduction in its operating loss of 18% to £2.4m, despite a substantial increase in headcount, predominantly in its Technology and Data Science and Sales and Account Management divisions.

As of 1620 GMT, shares were broadly flat, up just 0.06% to 8.01p.

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