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Pubmatic looks like a possible investment to complement gfinity. Plenty of cash, buying back shares and all metrics moving up

Boom seems to be becoming more of a millstone, but the continuing excellent Escape Hunt performance looks to have sparked buyers today. It will be a shame if Escape Hunt expansion is restricted by funding Boom

Lets hope so. Delays and new hires sound like more cash needed to bridge the gap and any equity raise likely to have to be deeply discounted

Despite all the promising talk from Martin the market is clearly losing faith. Closing the year 40% down and at lowest share price in year. We need results that match his optimism to see any recovery for long term investors.

Good turnover growth but burning cash quickly and looks like will need more funds soon. Nearly £10m of sales for 2% gross margin is dire. They look to have focus here but should not have let it slip this far

Looks like this is shut ? Anyone any info. A very costly error if so. Share price continues to get hammered. Retail stores have been disastrous so far…

The future certainly looks promising. Hopefully they have adequate cash to cover the investment needed and cover off these short term operational issues

Just checking you know this is not the Sports Direct Mike Ashley?

The trend continues....

Agreed though disappointing excess allocation to retail investors given the losses we have made so far

Https://www.retail-week.com/fashion/data-sosandar-and-superdrug-smash-ecommerce-growth-find-out-how/7045862.article

3rd biggest faller of the day after an 8% rise first thing. Not sure what market so worried about. Will they need more cash to fund the pace of expansion?

Promising as you say. Good to hear SOS is second best women's fashion brand on NEXT.

Als the profitability of their competitors with retail chains was reassuring.

Feels like the summer share price mark down was a significant over reaction

He is only a non exec and so £10k is fair enough. Combined with recent £65k from COO Andrew Jacobs looks positive sign to me.

From the interim results RNS Sep 28th things were looking very positive and if train strikes are less this year then should see a good Christmas. Wondering when they will start opening new Boom Battle Bars and drive the econmies of scale

POST PERIOD END TRADING AND OUTLOOK

Trading bounced back strongly in July after the seasonally quieter months of May and June.

The resilient performance continued throughout the summer.

Like for like growth within the Boom owner operated estate was 25% and within the Escape Hunt® owner operated estate was 23% in the nine weeks to 3 September 2023.

Margins within Boom saw further, steady improvements and Escape Hunt® has continued to operate at margins in line with those achieved in the first six months of the year.

Whilst remaining alert to the ongoing pressures on consumers, cost pressures in the business and the seasonal significance of the end of the year, strong corporate sales and ongoing operational improvements provide confidence of an outcome for the full year in line with current market expectations.

£60k investment and now holding £1070k worth..

Agreed.

Could be a second offer comes in but seems highly unlikely. Or could sell now just in case deal falls through, again does not look probable which is why price is close to the final expected outcome

For each City Pubs Share: 108.75 pence in cash (the "Cash Consideration")and 0.032658 new Young's A Shares (the "New Young's A Shares")

so about 1 Youngs share for every 31 CPC share plus cash

Is James fully focussed on BOD, he seems to be continually doing presentations etc to various audiences.

Would be good to him just focus on getting BOD moving unless this help in getting permits through the system

You can sell today for £3.66 or wait to receive cash of £3.75 paid into your broker account.

Timetable tbc,

Risks deal might not happen seem low chance, someone else might bid higher. Even lower chance I would say