Date: Thursday 27 Sep 2012
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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Amount purchased: 916,667 @ 2.15p
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Director name: Mr Paul S Walsh
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Value: £52,950
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