By Bruce Carleton
02 May 2008

BERKELEY CA -- Insider Newswire reports on top transactions executed by corporate insiders at publicly held companies. This report is based on form 4 filings submitted to the Securities and Exchange Commision by publicly held companies in the last six business days.

Top Corporate Officer Transactions

The top buying officers were Richard J. Lynch, Donald L Correll and James R. Griffin. Richard J. Lynch of New York NY bought 20,000 shares of Verizon Communications Inc (Common Stock) for a total cost of $760,000.00 at an average price of $38.00 a share. Donald L Correll of Voorhees NJ bought 25,100 shares of American Water Works Company, Inc. (Common Stock) for a total cost of $539,560.00 at an average price of $21.05 a share. James R. Griffin of Pittsburgh PA bought 13,175 shares of Wesco International Inc (Wesco International Common Stock) for a total cost of $499,004.25 at an average price of $37.85 a share.

The top selling officers were Lewis B Campbell, Philip W Schiller and Nicholas M Donofrio. Lewis B Campbell of Providence sold 592,042 shares of Textron Inc (Common Stock) for a total of $36,223,998.30 at an average price of $61.07 a share. Philip W Schiller of Cupertino CA sold 136,341 shares of Apple Inc (Common Stock) for a total of $23,528,275.10 at an average price of $172.55 a share. Nicholas M Donofrio of Armonk NY sold 156,953 shares of International Business Machines Corp (Common Stock) for a total of $19,267,501.18 at an average price of $122.81 a share.

Insiders file Form 4s with the SEC to report transactions in their companies' shares. Open market purchases and sales must be reported within two business days of the transaction. Indirect transactions and transactions with reported share prices of greater than $1000 are excluded from the report.

Write to Bruce Carleton at rbc@insidernewswire.com