LONDON (ShareCast) - Mandy Gradden, a non-executive director of SDL, the FTSE 250 information management firm, bought up 7,500 shares on Thursday, just over a week after the company unveiled a 20 per cent leap in first-half revenues.

Gradden's purchase, in which she bought the shares at 658p each for a total of £49,350, marks her only holding in the group.

Earlier this month, SDL reported revenues of £133.6m, with over the half the gain due to its purchase of marketing firm Alterian. Pre-tax profits were up 4% to £16.4m with earnings per ordinary share rising 2% to 15.63p.

However, the company said the uncertainty of the global macro-economic outlook has created "a degree of caution" in some of the markets it operates in.



Top Director Buys

SDL (SDL)
Director name: Miss Mandy Gradden
Amount purchased: 7,500 @ 658.00p
Value: £49,350

The Real Good Food Company (RGD)
Director name: Mr Peter Cecil Salter
Amount purchased: 50,000 @ 46.00p
Value: £23,000

4Imprint Group (FOUR)
Director name: Mr Stephen Gray
Amount purchased: 5,000 @ 300.00p
Value: £15,000

Plant Health Care (PHC)
Director name: Mr Samuel A Wauchope
Amount purchased: 10,000 @ 105.00p
Value: £10,500

Plant Health Care (PHC)
Director name: Mr David Buckeridge
Amount purchased: 10,000 @ 105.00p
Value: £10,500


Top Director Sells

British American Tobacco (BATS)
Director name: Mrs Christine Morin-Postel
Amount sold: 1,700 @ 3,307.25p
Value: £56,223

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