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Peter Jones Swoops For Expansys As He Acquires Majority Stake

LONDON (Alliance News) - Entrepreneur Peter Jones must make a takeover over for Expansys after Wednesday upping his stake in the online smartphone and laptop seller to 50.92%. Under takeover rules, Jones must make an offer for the remaining shares of the company. The takeover code say

DIRECTOR DEALINGS: Expansys Issues Shares To Director

STOCKS NEWS EUROPE-UK small caps close down 0.5 pct

The FTSE Small Caps index close down 0.5 percent, compared to falls of 0.7 percent on the blue-chip FTSE 100 0.4 percent on the FTSE 250 mid-cap index E-commerce and consumer technology company Expansys slumps 35 percent after the company issues a profit warning, stating that trading in the

STOCKS NEWS EUROPE-UK small caps off 0.1 pct, outperform blue-chips

The FTSE Small Caps index is down 0.1 percent by around midday, outpeforming bigger declines of 0.8 percent on the blue-chip FTSE 100 and 0.6 percent on the FTSE 250 mid-cap index. E-commerce and consumer technology company Expansys slumps 35.4 percent after the company issues a profit war

Small caps round-up: AEA Tech, Expansys, HgCapital ...

Trading since April 1st at AEA Technology Group has remained challenging, as expected, but the energy and sustainability consultancy stressed that good progress is being made in the implementation of the business plan. Discussion over the firm's strategic options to realise its value are on-going wi

Small Caps round-up: eXpansys, Oxford Biomedica, Dawson International

eXpansys, the online electronics retailer has delivered a 33 per cent increase in turnover in the 12 months to the end of April. Total revenues for the year were 108.5m pounds, up 24pc on a like-for-like basis. Profits before tax were 4.3m pounds, a rise of 27pc on the prior year. The market had cle

Small caps round-up: Expansys, Scancell, Inspired Energy...

Expansys, the eCommerce company, has struck lucky in Istanbul. Its subsidiary PJ Media has won a contract to supply the official online store for Vodafone Turkey. By 11:06 eXpansys had gained 8.6%. Scancell Holdings, the developer of therapeutic cancer vaccines, has announced it has recruited enoug

Small caps round-up: K3, Densitron, Innovation...

Software firm K3 Business Technology Group has received a number of indicative proposals at levels materially higher than the current share price, which it will explore these under a formal sale process and is now consequently in an offer period. Shares in the firm leapt 21.75 percent to 187.50p.

Asian Citrus non-exec squeezes the funds to buy shares

A non-Executive Director of Asian Citrus, an AIM-100 Chinese orange grower, has bought 256,000 shares for himself and his wife. Peregrine Moncreiffe and his wife, Miranda Moncreiffe, purchased the shares at an average price of 37.95p each for a total of £97,152. Winterthur Pension Management, in

Expansys sees 30% sales growth

Expansys, the online electronics retailer, has climbed 6% this morning on news its November and December sales are 30% ahead of the equivalent period of 2010. The growth has come from the firm's own brand websites and particularly in the Asia and US divisions. Expansys's Chief Executive, Anthony C

eXpansys posts half year profit

Online wireless and consumer technology retailer eXpansys reported a half year profit compared to a loss during the same six months a year earlier after strong growth particularly in the US and Asia. The group, which sells smartphones, laptops and cables, said pre-tax profit came in at £0.8m for th

Dragon's Den's Peter Jones puts up the money

Dragon's Den entrepreneur and business tycoon Peter Jones has used some of the proceeds of his sale of one of his telecoms businesses, Wireless Logic, to buy more shares in the online consumer electronics business eXpansys He bought 35,634,200 shares at 2.42p. Jones, the non-executive deputy cha

EXPANSYS bosses buy into rally

Directors at EXPANSYS have been clubbing together to buy big stakes in the ailing online smartphone retailer, taking advantage of a continuing rally. Bob Wigley took the biggest stake, taking about 6.6m shares at 1.49p a time and lifting his stake to 8.4m shares, about 0.73% of the company. Brian C

Expansys back in black

After a year of transition and change, global online consumer electronics retailer Expansys moved into the black at the full-year stage. Underlying profit before tax, which strips out one-off and other non-cash items, was £3.4m in the year to 30 April, versus a loss the year before of £0.2m. On an

Retail sales fall 2.1% in May

May retail sales were down by 2.1% on a like-for-like basis from the same month last year, new figures from the British Retail Council (BRC)show, demonstrating the fragility of consumer sentiment in Britain. The drop in sales comes after a strong rise in April that was boosted by warm weather and a