The chief executive of THG has handed shares worth more than £800,000 to "various friends", newly-filed documents have revealed.
Matthew Moulding has a further purchased 1.169 million shares in the Manchester-headquartered retail giant at a price of 70.2287p each.
According to the company's latest filing with the London Stock Exchange, Mr Moulding then immediately gifted the shares to various friends for free.
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THG has not named the recipients of the shares, how many there are or how many shares they have each been given. Mr Moulding has a stake of about 22% in THG.
The news comes after a $1.6bn deal that would have seen Japanese investment giant SoftBank take a near 20% stake in a major division of THG was abandoned yesterday.
It was announced in May 2021 that SB Management (SBM), a division of SoftBank, had bought an option to acquire a 19.9% holding in THG Ingenuity that valued it at $6.3bn.
It was also confirmed that SBM would also buy a $730m stake in Manchester-headquartered THG.
However, it was confirmed yesterday that the agreement had been "terminated by mutual agreement" because of "global macroeconomic conditions".
THG also said that it has "completed the internal separation of its key trading divisions" in a move which it said offers "flexibility to enter into future strategic partnerships to generate value accretion for its stakeholders".
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