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'No delivery when expected. Eve says mattress was dispatched, Dpd says parcel not received.'

I wonder if DPD are taking over the delivery contract? Shame they made a mistake too but at least we know mattresses and beds aren't all going through DX now.

My pillows came via Hermes a couple of moths ago but they are only small.

https://twitter.com/tizianals/status/1493576724172390402?s=21

Eve will know the details and hopefully answer. Even if s/he is in Eire, if they bought in 2022 they are still within 100 days. 100 days takes people to April. If they bought in 2021 then they could n't have seen 365 days trial anywhere because it hadn't been mentioned.

If CC is one of the best managers then she should pull eve through as some companies in this market will inevitably survive; consumers will continue to need beds, mattresses and sheets for the foreseeable future and they have to buy them somewhere. If she is not one of the best then it will be eve that falters and not Emma, Simba, Brooke and Wilde et al.

I just reported that review. There's a flag icon bottom right corner. You can do it if you have a reason and are not from eve, though you can't give the reason. I hope TP understand the 100 / 365 day rule and that currently we are still under 100 days of 2022, so mattress must be a 2021 purchase.

I'm going to flag other reviews if they can be shown to be malicious as this one clearly is.

I would speculate that Friend of Ted bought during the 100 days (before Black Friday) and has now seen the 365 days offer. So now posting trying to undermine the 365 day trial period and saying causes a bad back for good measure. Just my guess of course..
Good that eve are standing their ground. If bought when Friend of Ted claims, ie in 2022, then actually still well inside 100 days and we know eve honour their 100 day trial; never been a question on that.

L'interview de Charles Digby-Smith (eve Sleep) et Laurence Platin (Olivier Desforges)

interview with Digby-Smith (eve).
and LP (OD),

'Bien Dormir' (sleep well) is the eve slogan and covers all their products.
Started internet and now with 26 OD shops.
OD is focussed on higher-end bedding and bathroom, general household stuff, etc and sought a longterm mattress partner to complete their range of sleeping well merchandise: Eve.
OD used to have their sheets displayed on generic beds that were not for sale (presentation of sheets etc only).There was no need for more floor space in shops as the beds on the shop floor were simply replaced by eve beds, dressed with OD sheets. It was natural partnership as both had ‘good sleeping / sleep well’ philosophy at the fore.
D-S says they are internet sellers but a good proportion of French people still like a bricks and mortar store to shop in. Eve were looking parter with a lot of retail experience in France because you need experience to be successful in retail.
Interviewer asks what OD has to sell.
Pandemic impact according to LP is that people wanted nicer homes to give positive home feeling during lockdown, and when shop reopened there was a need for physical contact with products after the long pause(s). D-S says the pandemic has impacted sleep quality and also kids are sleeping less well and so disturbing parents :(
Innovation: Foam are hi-tech products and there are innovations every 4 months and their latest high-end product has graphite for cooling. Another eg. is that they work with a Doctor in Cambridge on alarm clocks as the ring of the alarm clock can destroy the benefits of sleep so eve is working with this composers and Dr to create an alarm clock that are adapted to the personality of the sleeper.

My wife won't mind translating, I hope!
The comma spoils the link. Don't just press the link as you only get up to the comma. copy from http all the way to -sleep at the end
so copy all of this below, then paste it:
https://www.bsmart.fr/video/2338,37-smart-co-eve-sleep

I'll try and get a rough synopsis of their chat on here later or tomorrow

you have to copy and paste the whole link https://www.bsmart.fr/video/2338,37-smart-co-eve-sleep

Try this dontgive https://www.bsmart.fr/video/2338,37-smart-co-eve-sleep

https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:share:6897569642433646592/?midToken=AQFQRrTNI-vEBg&midSig=3iR4Tjoc2qjW81&trk=eml-email_network_conversations_01-hero-1-check_update_cta&trkEmail=eml-email_network_conversations_01-hero-1-check_update_cta-null-1arrt1%7Ekzn2ipeg%7Eol-null-neptune%2Ffeed%2Eupdate

Actually, Snow is also a winner..
Dontgive, do you have any others in you PF?

Cheers wyn / wyn :)
I'm thinking / hoping SNG btw. It's my only winner at the moment and haven't sold any. If it wins it pays for avct and advance. But not if I sell some.
As for Eve, –2.63% today feels a lot better than –7.89% earlier.
Tomorrow is another day!

For 40 years I was up 100% with the tooth fairy. But with 3 kids my loss is now triple that. Having said that, my girls have sold every tooth they've produced.

I'm reluctant to look in my HL acc today after falls in several shares of mine...

Wyn, once you've dealt with dontgive's Qu, I have a query. Just suppose you hadn't had chance to sell your 30% before great news arrived on a share (FDA approval or something similar that really meant almost complete de-risk, though not on mattresses obviously :-) would you still sell your 30% then another 30%, or just hang on to everything?

The situation in Ukraine is not helping. Most of my PF is down today, and by quite a bit (worse than eve).

I wish I did have insight dontgive :) Sadly, just my best-guesses all along. From what CC says the money is going on marketing both at home and abroad, and is virtually breaking-even at home, but not yet in France. Airing the French advert and other marketing we don't know about must be costing quite a bit and fortunately she says they are beginning to see the results now. Emma are quite dominant in France so it's probably even more uphill work than it is here. Eve are probably less likely to get a winning result in a magazine comparison test in France for that reason I feel. Being British won't perhaps help though Emma is German so who knows. My French wife doesn't know whether France favours the UK or Germany with there being 'history' with both countries.

In one interview CC gave she did admit that, early on in her time, they were in a state of some difficulty and really not sure how things would pan-out. Was it at the start of covid, or earlier than that? I remember thinking 'well, they didn't say that at the time' so it left me feeling a little bit unsure as to whether we'd hear if they are in worse trouble that is obvious, until the last second.

Some of the recent drop might not even be eve related; could have been worry on Ukraine. Maybe Putin is a disciple of President Roosevelt's "speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far" philosophy. Let's hope so.

Anyway, fingers crossed we shall have a decent coming week.

Hi Dontgive, another worry of mine regarding the share buy-back you suggest is that, had they bought back when you first suggested, the bank balance would now be a lot lower and the share price would not be a lot higher, if at all higher..

As long as they spend wisely and turn a profit before they nearly reach zero in the bank, I'd consider it money well spent on marketing, product development etc. For me, getting to profit is the paramount objective. There's not much point in money in the bank if it's not for spending on improving the business, or for giving as a dividend, and there's no chance of a divi any chance soon. If they can turn a profit the sp will sort itself out. Of course, the sooner the better for the profit but she says UK and Eire first.

We should get more info in March but she did give quite a bit of info in the recent RNS and in the webinar. There's only so much she can predict so can only give what she is pretty sure of, and that's subject to change as we've found.

I'm happy for her to concentrate on the business and get the team (and DX) to do what they are supposed to do. That would go quite far to turning a profit now that she has 'turned things around' (hoping that she has 'turned things around' to get to where we are now).

She did say that, like the uk experience, France was beginning to come through – just later than anticipated. Be a shame to write it off when / if it's going to come good.. It might also make eve look rather more fragile in the UK, to customers attracted by the 10 year guarantee. They wouldn't know the reason for pulling out of France but it would come up for anyone googling for info on eve.

Pulling out of France, and then trying to get back in later, would be the worst scenario.