1.7m Xmas gift for chain chief

Printing.com chief executive Tony Rafferty has landed a 1.78m pre-Christmas bonus.

Rafferty sold just over 2.6m ordinary 1p shares in printing.com on 2 December at a price of 68p per share.

He said it had not been in his plans to sell the shares, but the sale responded to requests from the company's brokers due to considerable demand from investors.

As a result, Rafferty's stakeholding is now just over 9m shares or 20.3% of the group's issued share capital.