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Not sure why you focus on Diehard so much. Be interesting to see impact of those 3 new companies in US they have bought. What will they do to bottom line. Possible synergies with the existing business to strengthen their US business. The focus here seems very much on the US business. Also the weak pound currently helps enhance their profits. The comment about Red in the results maybe reflected on the lost Boots contract. Hence adjustments. The key thing here is the health division which is growing strongly and represents over 50% of the groups revenue. Directors could easily over double their money here. Huntsworth cleared out their bad news last year and the director bought in cheaply. Another big plus here is a lot of the stale funds here cleared out in last 12 or so months. So you have a relatively new group of fund investors who will likely stay around for 2-3+ years. With the strong performance I can see more topping up here. No point selling here any time soon. I don't see the dollar losing any value any time soon.

http://www.gorkana.com/2017/07/redleaf-communications-appoints-capital-markets-director/ This is the fourth director hire for Redleaf in as many months. 'Redleaf Communications has hired Elisabeth Cowell, a former partner at financial PR firm St Brides Partners, as its capital markets director.' I can't believe all these new hires are due to staff turnover. Must be strong demand for Redleaf products. I expect them to be one of the stars in the H1 results.

Overvall the healthcare business is the big star here. it accounts for 55m of revenue. That revenue grew by 19%. Helped by a strong US$. Grayling revenue down but in profit. CDR revenue down but providing 1.4m to the bottom line. With most sales in dollars here it can only be good news for UK share holders. Divident increased too. Operating profit of 10.1m. Strong growth forecast for 2nd half of year. I think most will be happy with these results. 70-80p far off?

http://www.odwyerpr.com/site_images/Mergermarket-Rankings.pdf Globally Newgate have climbed 1 place with the value of their deals up 87% compared to H1 2016. Deal count globally is still at 20 for h1 2017. That 87% jump is huge in terms of deal values. The Asia figures are more interesting. Newgate top the table with deals worth US$ 16,209M compared to 1294bn last year. From 17th to 1st. Looks like H1 2017 has been really strong for the Asian businesses. A lot of those figures could be to do with Samsonite. It's still impressive if the figure is up 10 fold on last year. The deal count in Asia is up from 6 to 16. A climb from 9th to 2nd. Note these figures only include transactions above $5m. Couldn't see Newgate on UK deal list. However Redleaf appears on the deal count. 4 in H1 2016 but 9 in H12017. They climbed from 34th to 17th. So this suggest Redleaf, Newgate Aus, Singapore and HK are probably doing very well. I expect to see strong revenue growth in H1 results. Unless PPS has held them back. Publicasity with Tesco deal will also help. Can Newgate turn around a poor 2016 loss? Have a read. Lots of interesting numbers here.

https://www.holmesreport.com/latest/article/boots-to-shift-1m-uk-consumer-pr-brief-from-red-to-burson-marsteller Red Consultancy have lost £1m Boots consumer Brief. http://www.gorkana.com/2017/07/howden-joinery-hands-citigate-dewe-rogerson-financial-comms-brief/ 'Howdens Joinery, the FTSE 250 UK kitchen supplier, has appointed Citigate Dewe Rogerson to handle its financial communications.'

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https://www.holmesreport.com/latest/article/boots-to-shift-1m-uk-consumer-pr-brief-from-red-to-burson-marsteller Red Consultancy have lost £1m Boots consumer Brief. http://www.gorkana.com/2017/07/howden-joinery-hands-citigate-dewe-rogerson-financial-comms-brief/ 'Howdens Joinery, the FTSE 250 UK kitchen supplier, has appointed Citigate Dewe Rogerson to handle its financial communications.'

Looking back at the RNS from Hawk Investment Holdings Limited it had adjusted the percentage figures to account for the share issues. So wait and see if Hales Hargreave follow suit. I doubt they will given previous lack of RNS.

Porta have updated their investors page with todays date but I am still trying to work out what they have updated. Does seem strange that Porta are holding off updating the major shareholders. I suspect one of these shareholders has been snapping up the sold shares here. Maybe they are waiting for the current seller to finish. The FT site now has Hales Hargreave below 8% due to recent share issues. Ruffers just over 4%. There is a difference on holdings of 600k for FIL. Quiet few weeks for Porta trade wise. Too quiet!!.

http://www.gorkana.com/2017/07/newgate-wins-atalaya-mining-financial-brief/ 'Atalaya Mining, a European mining and development company, has instructed Newgate Communications to provide financial and investor communications. Atalaya’s major asset is the Riotinto copper mine in Huelva province, Spain. The brief includes regular financial communications as well as enhancing the UK Capital Markets profile of Atalaya, which is listed on London’s AIM market as well as Canada’s TSX. Charlie Chichester, senior partner at Newgate, is leading the team, assisted by consultants James Ash and James Browne.' From my research I though they had been acting on behalf of this firm for last month or so. Maybe news story has been slow to reach the market or the brief has been expanded? Interesting news anyway.

180m IPO for Residential Secure Income PLC. http://www.londonstockexchange.com/exchange/news/market-news/market-news-detail/other/13287136.html Looks like Newgate are PR advisors here.

Grayling brings in Andrew Ferguson as creative director http://www.gorkana.com/2017/07/grayling-brings-in-andrew-ferguson-as-creative-director/

80% down is not good. I think Porta will recover but they need a few things to settle into place. Including a reduction on these 13% loan rates. I don't expect any miracles soon. That being said I expect share to remain around 4p or higher once the current seller is done.

Yeah I would stick with this share for now. All the news streams seem pretty positive. Plus it's paying out a dividend too. I don't do too much research on Huntsworth but I follow PR news sites.. So I normally catch Huntsworth news.

http://www.gorkana.com/2017/07/redleaf-hires-laura-westmacott-as-associate-director/ Third hire in a few weeks. Either to replace people or the business is doing really well? 'Redleaf Communications has strengthened its property team with the appointment of luxury, Middle East and broadcast expert Laura Westmacott as associate director. She will focus on the agency’s luxury residential developer clients, helping them to reach high-net-worth individuals around the world.' The RNS from Hawk Holding merely shows they still hold all their stock. None of the numbers seem to of changed. Someone is snapping up the sold stock here. Not sure who. Likely funds given previous events last year.

The company has had some set backs and has been pain stakingly devaluing assets and issuing shares to cover it's financial responsibility. It's been hard to fully understand the real day to day operational profit/loss due to these one off write downs. It would seem it's overseas operations are doing well. Same for Redleaf and Publicasity. Unclear how the other parts of the groups are doing. Porta could really use a decent cash injection to pay off debts here. However all the major shareholders above 3% apart from Fidelity have been snapping up sold stock here in the last 12-14 months. Plus revenue has been increasing even though losses have grown. They have made a lot of senior hires too that came with many clients. Apparently first 5 months of 2017 is ahead of expectations. Smoke and mirror really. I have no plans to sell any time soon. I think if they can sort out the key issues this share should rise if the business is doing well.

If I remember correctly Matthrew Freud did not sell out?? His percentage merely fell below 3%. There is no evidence to prove he sold his stake here. Check RNS on 3rd Feb 2017. I never got in here. I kept saying 36-37p was the floor here but I never invested. I would not worry about what others are doing here. If the share is doing as well as the board suggests then no reason to sell here. If they can afford 24m on a takeover this suggests things are going well. I guess the investment may pay for the extra debt. Not really looked at the numbers here. On a plus side. A few funds may have sold out but most of the new funds will be committed for 1-2+ years. They have had no problem replacing these funds. Which is another positive. Be interesting to see how high this share might go. If you look at Cello that is also doing very well. Up to 130p now. So many PR firms doing very well here. See what happens here.

Looks like we have the answer to who bought out bluefocus. Kabouter fund! Albeit Blue Focus had circa 17m shares. I wonder if we could see Huntsworth move their base to the US here. Would fit in with Brexit. Plus fact a large percentage of their revenue is now in dollars. The announced acquisitions were also US based. Would they then sell off some of their UK/European assets? They certainly would not want an expensive UK HQ if they moved to the US. However, I am not sure the board of directors would want to move abroad. See what happens. The fact directors have stopped buying could indicate more action behind the scenes. Who knows what might happen here.

Takeover! 24m takeover. 'Huntsworth plc, the healthcare communications and public relations group ("Huntsworth" or "the Group"), today announces the acquisition of the entire share capital of The Creative Engagement Group ("TCEG") from funds managed by LDC (Managers) Limited ("LDC") and certain members of TCEG's management for total consideration of £24.7m. Transaction highlights TCEG is a collection of three creative agencies - WRG, The Moment and Just Communicate - that provide experiential marketing primarily through events and digital marketing, including virtual and augmented reality, predominantly to healthcare clients.' 'The consideration of £24.7m will be financed through the Group's existing facilities. TCEG generated revenues of c. £26m and EBITDA of c. £3.8m in the year to 31 October 2016 and the Group expects the acquisition to be accretive to the Group's earnings in the current financial year. TCEG's gross assets were £26.6m as at 31 October 2016.' Sounds very positive. Cost savings available too? Numis clearly liked the news increasing it's target price to 77p..

https://twitter.com/portacomms Looks like they may have a new client? 'So excited to see this and to have @InLinkUK as a @NewgateComms client. Thrilled to work with the team in bringing InLinks to the UK.' Seems to be a BT project. 60 second interview with new Redleaf Director Guy Smith. http://www.gorkana.com/2017/06/60-seconds-with-redleaf-communications-guy-smith/ Oneview group has raised 3.9m. Looks like Newgate Comms were involved. So were Hawk Investment Holdings Limited. http://www.investegate.co.uk/article.aspx?id=201706280700053562J They have also removed 3 staff from their Newgate employee page. Offset by Redleaf and Publicasity hires. Smoke and mirror really. Could be natural turnover of staff.