The McCann family has bought a further 125,000 shares in Fyffes at 80 cents (63p) each, it was revealed yesterday. Notification of the share buying, which took place on December 15th, was received yesterday.

It is the second time in the past two weeks that the McCann family has gone into the market to buy shares in the company. On December 8th, the family company, Balkan Investments, bought 670,000 shares at 85 cents each.