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Paypoint bosses offload stakes

Paypoint bosses offload stakes

14.02.2008

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Directors at electronic payment services group PayPoint sold millions of pounds worth of shares in the company today, following the release of a positive interim statement.

Chairman David Newlands sold 290,143 shares for over £1.7m and chief executive Dominic Taylor sold 129,239 shares for just under £778,000.

Newlands now owns just 5,000 shares in the company, while Taylor sold his entire stake. They sold the shares for 600p each.

Paypoint, whose services include bill payments at convenience stores, said this morning that the integration of the newly acquired internet payment and Romanian businesses is going well.

In the period from 1 October 2007 the company has seen the number of its terminal sites increase by 3.3% to 23,380 from 22,624. The number of sites at the recently acquired Romanian business has risen by 8.1% over the same period to 3,899.

Top Director Buys

Holidaybreak (HBR)

Director name: Mr James Greenbury

Amount purchased: 17,344 @ 572.00p

Value: £99,208

Holidaybreak (HBR)

Director name: Mr Robert Ayling

Amount purchased: 8,672 @ 572.00p

Value: £49,604

Holidaybreak (HBR)

Director name: Mr Martin Davies

Amount purchased: 8,672 @ 572.00p

Value: £49,604

Holidaybreak (HBR)

Director name: Mr James Wallace

Amount purchased: 8,672 @ 572.00p

Value: £49,604

Holidaybreak (HBR)

Director name: Mr Steven Whitfield

Amount purchased: 8,672 @ 572.00p

Value: £49,604

Regal Petroleum (RPT)

Director name: Mr Francesco Scolaro

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Amount purchased: 33,500 @ 137.00p

Value: £45,895

Rift Oil (RIFT)

Director name: Mr Ian R Gowrie-Smith

Amount purchased: 1,000,000 @ 3.75p

Value: £37,500

Holidaybreak (HBR)

Director name: Mr Carl Michel

Amount purchased: 3,469 @ 572.00p

Value: £19,843

Top Director Sells

PayPoint (PAY)

Director name: Mr David Newlands

Amount sold: 290,143 @ 600.00p

Value: £1,740,858

BP (BP.)

Director name: Mr Byron E Grote

Amount sold: 119,073 @ 567.13p

Value: £675,299

PayPoint (PAY)

Director name: Mr Dominic Taylor

Amount sold: 200,000 @ 600.00p

Value: £1,200,000

PayPoint (PAY)

Director name: Mr Dominic Taylor

Amount sold: 129,639 @ 600.00p

Value: £777,834



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