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@Mazz - They announced it as Tesco didn't mind it being public. Secondly as it is a major contract win. They have announced previous large contract wins with RNS-r. Many major client wins are not made public as some firms don't like advertising it. Sometimes changing PR firms can be seen as bad news. Pointless emailing the board as they probably don't know you. They replied Adastra as they know him. You would be better off asking Adastra to email board again. Not sure if he would really do this given previous responses. The emails are likely on their website.

Apart from currency regarding Australia article seemed very positive. Actually Aus dollar is at a high against sterling. Maybe they got that wrong?

www.proactiveinvestors.co.uk/companies/news/174702/porta-banishing-the-post-brexit-blues-174702.html# Article about Porta.

2 new names on Newgate Communication staff list. 1 executive and another consultant. Takes UK staff to 41. 1. My gut is there will be no TU or they are waiting on other news. 2. I still think directors are locked out due to acquisitions. Can't be 100% sure. 4/5. Hardly pointless if they mark up share 10%. Not everyone follows pr websites or forums. 6. Gary Wyatt has almost doubled his holding here. Plus other investors in background quietly buying. Trouble is others are selling.

I think you will find in Adastra previous posts he posted his replies. Overall be patient. The board know people are worried about debt. As for Morton. If he really wanted to take over he has had ample chance to buy up past 30% in last 12 months. Fact is his holdings have not changed beyond those mentioned in the RNS.

Excellent post Adastra. I think we have to wait and see here. Fact is with the debt and his 23-30% stake in company Bob is pulling the strings for now. Hopefully no RNS tonight. Budget day is the day to sneak out bad news. I can see why you have been so frustrated by this share. You have tried to fight the good fight here. I guess only the directors will truly know what is happening here. I doubt they could tell disclose much info over an email without breaking certain rules. Maybe with Steffan in charge more will happen on this matter now? At present Bob is stacking up more and more shares. What percentage does he need to reach before he has to officially declare a takeover here?? Hmmmm.

Closer to 8p here now. Not too worried as I think this is very under valued. Any good news could lead to a surge in share price here.

They are doing well in terms of interest but at same time this is crippling Porta and share price. They are probably losing money on most of their 66m shares. I can't see how this is good for Morton? No point posting about this daily. Only the bod will truly know what they plan to do here. If anything?

Your asking a similar question to what Adastra asked at the AGM last June. My comment on debt from AGM was 'Looks like they are looking to long term refinance Porta.' So far we have had no real update Were all frustrated by these costly loans. Just found this. Newgate are acting on behalf of Impact Healthcare. http://www.investegate.co.uk/impact-healthcare--ihr-/rns/first-day-of-dealings/201703070801036690Y/

I am sure they would of done that months back if it was possible. Banks probably won't lend to porta. They are not yet making money.

I for one will miss Adastra's very detailed posts on here. I do hope Adastra will continues to post here. Albeit the motives to post here are less when you hold no shares. He better buy back soon as we need someone at the AGM to ask the questions.

Hi Adastra, Yes I figured you planned to sell soon after they reannounced the loan in November. You sounded very annoyed by this. I think Steffan has had a big impact here. Certainly some of the clients are here because of Steffan and Gavin. The board needs to sort out these ridiculous loans at 12%. They are crippling the firm. 5-6% would be more manageable. Been a mix of company results here. FTI consulting said they would of had growth of 8.8% in Q4 if not for foreign exchange rates. Huntsworth released a bullish trading update with revenue ahead of forecast due to FX and growth. So some firms are doing very well here. Porta will have significant gains from currency movement. They also appear to be winning some good contracts too. F and F being one of them. Publicasity has announced 3-4+ new clients in last year. Can the other divisions match this? Australia still seems to be the star performer in the group. Waiting on trading updates and director buys. Fact is that BM is still buying here and happily taking on millions of issued share. Pretty sure the directors would be buying too if they could. It's another sign that the directors may be locked out. We know Gary Wyatt has almost doubled his stake here. BM and GW are no fools here. I still think this share is worth considerably more than its current market cap but the company seem to be holding back on releasing data to show how it is really doing. Very frustrating.

Purely on a number basis. Those 2 trades added up exactly to the number of shares Morton Trustee increased their holdings by. It's possible as they were at the midpoint they may have actually been the buy trades? Till we see the reverse trades we may not know. Morton Trust still buying can't be a bad sign in terms of company performance? Or are they just protecting their investments? Wait and see. TU or Results should give us some ideas. Which might come first??

Well over 20%. Retro Grand own 5.69% of the firm. That is another Morton company.

RNS Bob Morton trust bought the 7m shares.

Looking at Newgate website there is at least 1-2 more new hires on there. Main one is an account director who has 9 years experience. Head of recruitments is also on there now. Plus one consultant who started in 2017. Hard to keep up with all their new hires on the website. New names seem to be appearing every week or so. Would a firm struggling really be hiring so many staff?? No late trades today. Might appear tomorrow or Monday. I doubt we will get a TU next week. Budget week. Normally the time to dump bad news.

No news and we complain. Too much news and we want clarification. Could just be a smaller shareholder selling up. I agree there should be reverse trades here. Assuming those 2 were the sells. This is probably why we dropped from 5p to 4p. Took a while to clear. We may not get a TU.

http://www.prweek.com/article/1425815/tesco-clothing-brand-f-f-hires-publicasity-uk-europe-pr-brief?utm_content=bufferfbc89&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer Looks like a decent contract! 'Publicasity will work alongside F&F's in-house team, as well as creative agency Odd and media planning firm MediaCom, to launch the clothing brand's 2017 autumn/winter collection this spring.' 'The brief also includes the handling of a network or central European agencies, which will execute PR campaigns within their own markets. These agencies will report to Publicasity.' 2017 off to a good start for Publicasity! Tesco is one of the biggest retailers in the UK.

My gut is the delay in trading update is due to a big announcement. Lots of changes in background here. Having Thirteen comms team work for Newgate will allow more product cross selling. See what happens about other 49%. I think they were already working on a number of their clients anyway.

http://www.gorkana.com/2017/02/thirteen-to-become-part-of-newgate-communications Looks like Thirteen is to fall under Newgate operation. Looks like someone is drip selling stock on Market here. Need TU soon to end the uncertainty here.