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I use HSDL and they sent my vouchers automatically. However, I also hold Whitbread shares and this year had to apply directly to the registrars. I think it's a GDPR thing about contact names and addresses.
CGC buying 46 million shares
My GKN shares are in a HL SIPP and I have been told that GKN claim some sort of obscure tax regulation does not allow them to issue them to people in this situation.
Bought a few shares for my ISA and also trading account , mainly for the Divi but also because sector depressed. Still have them. Booklet dropped through the door a few weeks back. Wasn't expecting it , I'm with iii. Used it twice so far on meals , saved about £25. Interestingly only went to GK pubs because of the offer. May try a hotel if they'll take a crazy Border Collie....
AJ Bell Youinvest wont send the vouchers and now you can not contact Greene King to bypass them.
Unlike Marston's (a smaller company) they don't have anyone up for the task, and I suppose the Company Secretary was getting fed up of making exceptions in previous years.
Interactive Investor are more accommodating, but you do need to ask for them. the secure mail link works for this action.
I am with HL too and got my vouchers Monday
As most do nowadays, I hold GNK in a nominee account - last year I received vouchers. But sold the shares earlier this year to bank the profit.
Was back in on 31st July this year - again in a nominee acc, so just phoned my broker as still haven't received them. Unlike your broker though LGInvestor - mine (HL) have promised to look in to it and report back tomorrow.
- I'll post the outcome on here. By law it shouldn't matter whether shares are held directly or via a nominee acc
(I presuppose your broker gets them all, then it's up to the broker to dish them out proportionately to the nominees).
Could people on here please state whether they have obtained vouchers by holding shares directly or stating their nominee account provider who have asked for them.
Thanks
I am getting nowhere. GK won't send them to me and my nominee account provider won't ask GK for them.
Seems that Greene King will not directly issue vouchers to shareholders who use a nominee account.
I have had shares for a couple of years, but have not received vouchers.
Had Vouchers on friday
An extra bonus to go with the dividend tomorrow......25% discount on food and drink for September 2018 to August 2019 (5 times in every month !) plus 50% off hotel breaks at Old English Inns up to March 2019. Good marketing !
Got that no problem. Sold JDW a few months back at +45%, not yet been quite so lucky here but I can wait and vouchers are a bonus.
You have to hold 100 shares on the 31st July
I did not know they issued vouchers, just got in touch with HL for my share.
And a juicy 24.4p dividend coming on Friday !
It looks like not only will you get overweight from drinking its product but the extra good news is the broker is pitching in too in the overweight stakes. Morgan Stanley today reaffirms its overweight investment rating on Greene King PLC (LON:GNK) and raised its price target to 660p (from 640p).
Got my annual 25% discount vouchers for shareholders ! Very nice, go down well in the local
GNK is up over 12% at 535p now
Certainly irt pub business.
looks like the hot weather and the world cup helped a lot.
Some nice positives: Pub Company LFL sales up 2.8% compared to 1.2% for the market. Greene King branded local pubs LFL sales up 5.5%.
An email popped into my inbox yesterday with a code for a £5 voucher to be spent on food or drink in my local GKN pub.
Completely unasked for and it got me wondering. Is this a clever ploy to get me in there and go on to spend more or is it a sign of desperation that sales are not what they should be?
I’ve posted before about the 2 for 1 deals on prosecco and Peroni between 5pm and 7pm and my poor opinion of it. As soon as the offer ends the 2 for 1 tarts decamp in search of cheap drinks elsewhere ( Wetherspoons)
My local is certainly not as busy as it should be, in part due to some hefty price rises( Old Rosie cider going up 50p a pint overnight, cask beers up by 30-40p ) and with the fall off in trade, a noticeable drop in the quality of the cask ale.
This is a pub with 10 hand pumps but I fear for not much longer.
Their area manager for the Northwest is a young lady in her twenties who has admitted she has “no idea about cask beer” Is this a company you would feel confident investing in? You may see 450p a share sooner than you think
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consumption could it be good for UK economy https://www.strath.ac.uk/business/economics/fraserofallanderinstitute/economic_commentary/
Interesting article here in commentaries.
Erratum in my original post on Wed here -
"...as I foresee Sept being 'possibly' a good recovery month for GNK."
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"...That's what I'm planning for - balloons, bunting and party-time from September onwards. Well to at least cease retracing by Sept."
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".....Want to do all my buying in August and finished by the beginning of Sept."
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I have a strategy for profit warning hit shares and I'm monitoring so many I've made a howler with the month of September.
Delete party-time by September - I now realise it should be from AFTER SEPTEMBER. So won't be topping up in August, but have left a limt-buy order for 450p this morning, as a just-in-case 'chancer' bid.
To correct: I actually believe the SP will continue to retrace through September even though August may appear okay.
All in all - just yet another poster's personal opinion, that's all - so no damage done, I hope.
About to turn in for the day and find myself here per chance.
A question before tomorrow dawns - what price do you think GNK will CLOSE at tomorrow?
Just been checking last years similar divi for XD day (10th August 2017). The SP closed on the day before XD @ approx 662p. Here's the strange thing - upon opening the next day the SP opened well UP at approx 673p! (13p higher!)
- but then finished the day down at 652p
Only a 10p fall from the previous day's close but almost the full divi drop of 24.4p from what it opened at that morning.
And by the time it came round to payment day on 15th Sept 2017 and thus out of XD period the SP had never at any point closed any lower than that first day of XD day and looked like ending the period in good shape, but unfortunately about a week before payment day the profit-warning RNS came out and the price crashed terribly before the SP could reach payment day on the 15th Sept.
Conclusion? If the same thing happens (excluding the profit warning of course) and the SP opens first of all much higher before it falls, then it might not be as big a drop as I've speculated on below.
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Neah - it's gonna drop it's load big time tomorrow, isn't?