LONDON (ShareCast) - Sir John Peace, the Chairman of Experian, the FTSE 100 information services firm, sold 12,633 shares in the firm and gave the proceeds to charity.

Peace sold the shares at 990p each for a total of £125,067. "In addition, Sir John made an off-market gift of 5,015 Shares to charity for nil consideration," the company announced.

The transaction took place on March 27th, the same day the firm said it would increase its footprint in Japan by buying email marketing company Altovision. Experian did not reveal how much it is paying for Altovision, but did say the acquisition would be funded from existing cash resources.

In the first half of March the company made another acquisition, buying Court Ventures, an aggregator of electronically available public records data in the US, for an undisclosed sum.

Experian shares have performed well over the past year, climbing over 25%, or 197.00p. However they have taken a slight hit in the last month, dropping just over 1%, or 12.00p.


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Top Director Sells

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Director name: Mr John Peace
Amount sold: 12,633 @ 990.00p
Value: £125,067

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Director name: Mr Simon Emeny
Amount sold: 6,022 @ 706.00p
Value: £42,515

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Director name: Mr Barry Howard
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Director name: Mr Christopher Arthur Gurry
Amount sold: 10,530 @ 275.00p
Value: £28,958

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Director name: Mr Nigel G Clark
Amount sold: 10,000 @ 275.00p
Value: £27,500

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Director name: Mr George William Gurry
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Amount sold: 1,000 @ 1,280.00p
Value: £12,800

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