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you were right gibsonj45, more Uncrossed Trade shenanigans with morning

Good explanation but I wonder if these things are done to deliberately "scare the horses"?

Seems more like a market reporting anomaly.

The last trade to go through last night was for an oddball 62p (for 157 shares), the trades before that were all sitting in the 56p range

So ignoring the "rogue" 62p trade, not much change today

I've long wondered why Capita don't just make a takeover bid for ECK and have done with it?

ECK very complementary to Capita's business.

No wonder O'Hara has been mulling a NASDAQ listing, capital markets wise, AIM is a complete busted flush, responsible for flushing millions (billions?) of small investors capital down the toilet

No probs Rooky, having re-read your post, my post doesn't make much sense anyway (I was in an ECK winning new business mindset at the time of posting!).

Rooky "Not as much % improvement during the last financial year as the previous year"

Also caught my eye but, within the results, ECK go some way to explaining this by saying they had an exceptionally large contract win in 2019 (not necessarily a bad thing!) which has distorted YoY figures.

..on another BB:

https://www.shropshirestar.com/news/business/2020/05/29/sales-soar-in-the-sunshine-as-beer-lovers-drink-at-home/

oogle, you got your (my!) wish this morning, some 62 pencers going through at last

From the same (London Stock Exchange) website, over the two days there were 91 trades. I don't believe, with the volumes involved, all of them could have been existing holders getting out or new investors getting in.

There must be some machine driven activity going on, with just a few parties trading backwards and forwards.

Any major change in holding would have driven a TR1 notification by now.

I took the stats from the London Stock Exchange website for ECK.

According to the LSE, during last Wed and Thu (markets closed on Fri), a total of £116m worth of shares changed hands.

For a company with a market cap of £145m, you have to wonder what on earth is going on?

as above:
https://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/markets/article-8290335/Vodafone-gatecrash-O2-Virgin-Media-merger.html

Successive governments could not have done more to destroy the pub industry. The duty alone on beer is unbridled extortion (plus VAT, gives circa 30% of a pint is taxation, on what is a simple organic product). Also, the murky world of business rates takes some unpicking but I read £20k per year for one pub.

OKgov are literally killing the goose that laid the golden egg.

...part of me thinks that Covid is being used to hammer home the final nail in the coffin for the pub industry and as the users tend to be middle aged, white men, who is there in the MSM to give a stuff!?

“As we get older our immune system tends to get weaker and less effective, but there are things we can all do to keep ours in good shape and ready to take on all comers. One way is to bolster your microbiome, the microbes that live in your gut. They are central to our health, our mood, better sleep, allergy prevention, and importantly at the moment, immunity. Along with the gut’s ability to help manage a healthy weight, it’s clear that for long-term health, we need to start from the inside.”
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/health-fitness/nutrition/dr-michael-mosley-improving-gut-health-lockdown-will-boost-immunity/?li_source=LI&li_medium=liftigniter

Interesting opportunity, do Marston's not have their own big bottling plants?

Or, are they fully pulled out bottling beer, anybody know the split between the brewing contribution towards the bottom line vs the pub trade side?

Petition: Cut beer duty for at least 12 months, so pubs can survive after the covid virus.
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/306054

well, bang goes reason no. 5 (not entirely unexpected these difficult times)

To be fair to O'Hara, he leads from the front.

Just wish he'd move on from his two tin cans and a piece of string comms system.

the reasons I posted on another BB:

1) easily manageable debt
2) cash in the bank
3) growing revenues in both US and UK
4) little impact on business activity (either by staff movements or services they provide), that I can see anyway, re Coronavirus
5) annual dividend payment