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wont ask if your compnay used HRG :-) but you are quite right. I f we don't get any ash clouds or other disasters results should be great, dividends increased and SP well over 50. We are now at profits where a few years ago the SP was at 80 and above so no reason why we should be languishing down here. I wodner if eitehr DNATA or BCD will be tempted to eitehr take some profits on their shares now or really go for the big takeover. In my view and I am involved in the industry BCD has not really shown the growth that they had hoped for when they split form HRG a few years ago. They still have a lot of countries where they dont have ownership and at some stage they have to decide whetehr they go fo rthe also ran or competing on an equal footing with Amex and Carlsonwagonlit and the only way they can do that is to buy out HRG. I know I have a financial interest in them doing so (price will proabbly be around 80) but Van Vlissingen has the money, it is now all down to tactics and timing. If they don't go for it I can See HRG offering him a nice sum of money to take the company private again. It cannot be fun having your biggest competitor owning more than 20 % of your company. Business Tarvel Show comingup in February, good time for announcements, but I am just specualting and hoping, have nothing really concrete to go on and in themeantime I am extremely happy with the increase in SP coming on the background of quite low volume.

yet another bit of proof as to how business travel is moving ahead: http://www.financenews.co.uk/fnews/rise-in-business-travel-helps-eurostar-report-better-sales-numbers/

got in at 214, looking forward to sharing good news with you all

Happy new year to all Hoggers, have been focussing on so many others shares which have been quite extraordinarily succesful this first week of the new year. Delighted about BEM, BARC, BP, HZM, GKP, BDEV to name a few which have shot ahead. But my biggest investment and hope still remains with HRG and today we have the first clsoe above 40 for 2 1/2 years and we are beginning to see the real value of this share shine through. Very low volume as there are very few shares in circulation so clearly some buying pressure. Would love to see it well established in the 40's and start crawling towards the next target of 50. GL to all , hope you have all had a great start to the year!

but SP has just gone over 100 whic I cant explain except if tehy hope for a counterbid but I am out, have sold at 10% above yesterdays closinga nd happy to be out of this fiasco

forgot to post teh link: http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/e7a1cd60-1e20-11e0-bab6-00144feab49a.html#axzz1Ao64DASI

fianlly the deal has ben signed, 2 henderson shares for each 3 gartmore shares, SP shooting ahead this morning, we needed this

I dont understand, first you write that you made several £000k, that means several hundred thousand pounds, now you say 5000, there is a hell of a difference, maybe you meant several, maybe not easy to know the difference! Doesnt really matter to me what you made somewhere else, I am following this stick and you have been severely wrong all the way and if you followed your won advice and shorted when we were around 400 you would have lost much more on this one by now.

Thanks for this, seems to be an ongoing tactic and I decided to get in here Friday, looks to have paid off already. Great potential

significant first buy at 40 p for a vrey long time, still edging steadily upwards. with no news since the results and the Artemis holding announcment I am beginning to wonder if there is something going on behind the scenes such as negotiations with BCD (van vlissingen) or DNATA. In the past big announcements have been made inJanuary so will keep a close eye but as long as we keep moving higher I am not complaining.

Looked at BEM, looks very interesting, wish I had been okn it a bit earlier. Mines have doen extremely well for me this year, I was in very early at SOLG and VGM and I am also in London Mining. Think there is a lot more to come from those, might be that on eof them will end up falling flat but as long as the others can multiply who cares. BEM looks like very little downside so might take a little punt tomorrow, might use monye from my TAN shares which will proabbly spike inthe morning and then fall back after announcement tonight. TAN belongs to me specualtive group and I hope to get out of them at a break even and I think that is all I can hope for. Anyway thks for the tip, appreciate it

Cheers, Yes it has been a great few weeks, it is not that long ago we were circlinga round the 26-28.The results, the outlook, the Artemis holdinga nnouncement means strong SP rise for very little trading, just shows that if we ever gte somebody really going for this it could explode. Thanks for the tip, see they ae up todya, will have a look. I ahve also been sitting on JNY so long that I cant remember why Ibought them in the firts place but they went up nearly 50% todya so am going to try out why. Enjoy Christmas and have a a very profitable year, it could be th e years we see HRG go through the roof, that's at least what I will be drinking to

A few buys going on at 39+, it would be great to be back over 40 before the end of the year!

Kept at 38 this morning which is good news. You are quite right, there are very few shares in circulation, probably around 10% if you take BCD/DNATA/Artemis, some major institutions who have had their shares from the original launch/senior management and a number including myself who have no intention of selling. However if somebody really wnats to buy which it looks like Artemis does the price shoots up as we have seen recently, yesterdays rise was on very small volume. This just again indicates that if we at any stage saw eitehr BCD or DNATA combined with management move to gain control we would see a total differnt price, inmy view something between 60 and 80 and i don't believe that the present stalemate can last in the long term and would rate the chances of a bid in 2011 at about 70/30. In the meantime just enjoying the ride, my average a few points below yours and have a considerable holding, will havea look at Tric. I am also in MWA disappointing but otherwise have a good spread, long term hoping for the banks and building companies which I do have ata a profit because I kept buying down, second largets holding is BP which I managed to hit reasonably near the bottom, was going to sell at these levels but think they can go higher and will have a look at the dividend, then I am holding some big chance/rsik shares in pharmas/gold which could go wrong but could also give the jackpot, already SOLG and VGM doing very well but hoping for ABH/SAR/ASM/OXB. Overall have turned a dramatic loss in 2008 to a very solid profit now and a well balanced portfolio so looking forward to 2011. Wish all Hoggers and everybody else a fabolous holiday and a great profitable 2011

Price shooting up at the moment, and today we got an announcement that Artemis Investment Management has passed the 12% threshold. Nice to see that we are not the only one that believes in this share. Artemis are not people who invest that strong in a company if they didn't see a considerabel profit within a reasonably length of time. The price rose immedaitely on the annoncement and anything that brings the attention on to HRG is more than welcome. Wish I could buy more shares but i have already passed my limit long time ago and broken all rules I have ever set for proportion of portfolio in one share. Luckily some of my others have also served me well such as SOLG, VGM and MNR. Keeping a very close eye on HRG, wonder if Artemis is looking to grow the portfolio even more!

Deal more or less confirmed but at around the 90 level so might see a fall on Monday if no Henderson shares involved ind eal, let's see sunday press

Looks like a deal with a takeover by Henderson could happen any time and maybe before the new year.No idea of pricing but why should tehy do it below the present price and that is why we are substantially today. Part of the price could be henderson shares. If anyone knows more, please share.

thanks, mate, much appreciated and lovely tosee the continued steady rise. I think this should on fundamentals be at least 50 and it will get there next year (could get much more if we have movement on the takeover side), but we arenow 40% above where we were 3 months ago and just about these days 2 years ago was when this company dipped below a ridiculous 5p. was lucky enough to scoop up a fair amount of shares at that price and it has really helped me change my fortunes,s o I am very grateful and see a lot more to come from HRG

yes,s ome nice dividend but not enough to take it down several pence, but expect it to be back around the 35 in the next few days

Good point, 2 comments. 1) He bought most of the shares in the spring of 2008 where the price was above what it is today, I am not sure what his average is but probably around 35-40 so untill now he has not seen a great return on his investment. 2) I know he is a clever guy but he did not buy these shares for investment purpose. For this who do not know HRG and BCD was created by the break-up of BTI which was caused mainly by the dislike, not to say hatred between David Radcliffe, CEO of HRG and Van Vlissingen owner of BCD. They went form being partners to enemies and I certain he bought these shares first and foremost to tease Radcliffe and secondly in order at some stage to launch a bid, The recession came in the way and BCD was hit hard and Van Vlissingen had to pump extra money into the company. Yes, in the meantime he is nearlyback to break even on the shares and I think this is the time to decide to stay in, pull out or go for the bid. In the meantime the 2 companies have been building their strength where they were weaker when the break up ocurred which makes it slightly more diffcult to see the synergies altough there could still be savings and rationalistion and there would be 1 main competitor less. I am pretty sure that it suits neither HRG nor BCD to have this situation persist and as an investor I can only hope something will give, but as I have explained before the reward for these shares is clear to see even with a bid, taht would just be the icing on the cake but not the reason why I am holding these shares and expect them to make me very good money