DCC chief executive Mr Jim Flavin has paid almost £2.4 million as the balance due on 1.08 million partly-paid DCC shares and has also exercised options over 125,000 DCC shares at 200p each. His stake in DCC now stands at 3.1 per cent of the total.

Two other DCC directors have also paid the balance due on partly-paid shares. Mr Morgan Crowe paid just over £504,000 due on 230,990 partly paid shares, while Mr Michael Scholefield has paid £275,270 as the balance due on 127,500 shares.