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Good to see you here as well as CRU-although you could not have 2 more diverse companies.That said they both pay superb & growing dividends & I have a "free carry" here of a decent number of shares.I wish that all my investments performed as well as Plus ! The outlook statement has signaled strong growth since the beginning of the year , aided by our onboarding of new clients & volatility, together with an expectation that certain costs incurred last year will not be repeated this year-so our profits this year should grow strongly,as should our cashflow & ,consequently, our dividends.

The serious volatility of global markets & the fact that we have been taking on new clients again should result in an optimistic outlook statement & a decent dividend.Great investment for Playtech !!!!

Great find & shows what a shrewd deal Rotalac is- assuming that we can maintain a decent level of turnover to use a base for further growth

More impressive research Sid !Perhaps the potential costs of relocating to Haydock (if it were possible) were outweighed by the benefits of staying put,where local skilled ( & hopefully relieved & therefore motivated)labour would not be lost & production & business could continue seamlessly without disruption.Importantly Wythenshaw is only about 30 mins from Haydock so Joe & his team should be able to keep a beady eye on progress.Lets hope we can rebuild relationships with customers & start growing turnover again as it clearly declined over the last 12 months when Rotalac was clearly struggling.It will be interesting see how our figures pan out for 2016 & it looks as if 2016 will be viewed as the year of true transformation. Interesting that one of the primary beneficiaries of our rehabilitation is the Ferster Family,with a substantial uplift in the value of their shares(still over 10%of the company) & a very decent dividend.

Is my target & I would still be down 64% on my original holding,back in the day.Optimistic, I appreciate, but continued success with our existing portfolio together with new products under development & future deals ,as yet unknown,mean there is tons of potential here & we are still a tiny company in our sector.

Would we be beneficiaries of a potential takeover by Amazon of Ocado,which has been rumoured in order to expedite Amazons progress in the home grocery market.Could either open the door to a much bigger market or cost us a good customer if they prefer to stick with their existing supplier.

The statement was understandably a bit thin on detail but Rotalac seem to operate from large premises & have very diverse product lines,all of which needs to be managed.There was no mention of any senior Rotalac management joining CRU & as much as some would say that the existing management supervised the demise of a long established brand & we are better without them we still need someone to manage the division.It will be also interesting to see whether this business will also be integrated into our existing facility facilitating further economies of scale or whether a separate site will be maintained.The former MD is only 46 & I would be encouraged,assuming JG considers him to be a good manager,if he were to be retained

Looks great to me!

Congrats on you first post here & turning a profit during extremely difficult market conditions

Very true Apollo & I still need another £51 to break even on my original holding-down a mere 93%.However I did start buying back @100p & down to 30p , I supported the transformational placing & more recently @ under 320p, with an average on my "new" holdings of about 150p.So even a total dog can come good but you need tenacity,patience,lots of time & a very large amount of luck.The momentum appears to be with us with existing products & an exciting new pipeline so I will not be selling any time soon & am hoping that we are not on the receiving end of an opportunistic bid which may substantially underestimate our substantial potential

Moving nicely towards Hatfield

Different investment to Cru ,Testpack & Plus has been a great investment for me,so far & I too consider that we could revisit previous highs in the not too distant

Happy & successful 2016 to all investors here! My hunch when the news of the tote deal originally broke was that our new customer was Ocado but was that ever confirmed- too much Xmas cheer has clouded my memory !

May have headed down towards Croydon but now back in London suburbia & soon to hit the road towards, Birmingham,Leeds & then on to John O Groats ( & beyond). Excellent news today & recently regarding Exparel .

This is not another pump & dump by a lone wolf trying to make a few quid & the rise will be backed up by positive news,very soon & preferably before lunchtime on 24th

What has Pascal or The Chairman previously achieved in this sector.Obviously net funds raised will cover initial overheads & some due due diligence & I would imagine that they have an initial target/targets in mind & essentially Lvrt will be subject to an early reverse takeover & the SP performance will be determined by the perceived strength of the target.

Apart from a minor loss of reputation, as all large firms have skeletons emerging on a regular basis, their indemnity insurers will settle any claims & the loss to GT will be their excess & a possible premium hike .The partners generally will hardly feel it although the partner responsible,depending on seniority and his other clients, could be booted out ( quite rightly).Partners at GT will not be earning 7 figures , apart from, maybe, the managing partner and the odd "high flier".If they are found culpable it would be great to think that the system would compensate us-but it wont.We need to be making spurious mis selling claims or personal injury claims to get any easy money.I am still fuming over how easy it appeared to be for our whole executive team to rob us , and everyone else, blind without anyone noticing apart from a few shorters and a tiny US based hedge fund-all of whome, I believe, got very lucky.

Well spotted-definitely us & our recent IIs will be happy to support a further relatively minor fundraising on the basis that they are now seeing a decent capital return on investment together with a decent & growing yield. I have no intention of taking any profits yet but I appreciate that some longer term investments may be tempted

You are right about Playtech being good " bedfellows" & I think that our Board accepted a low offer at a time when they faced a regulatory hurdle & were tempted by the opportunity to turn millions of shares into many millions in cash. Our SP has recovered more than 50% following post deal cessation woes & , for now, is rising inexorably.Perhaps we had another suitor who were scared off by our Board or by Playtechs cash pile-either way we should not complain as there are many who expected our SP to plummet permanently should the deal with Playtech have collapsed.

The Playtech deal fell through & as Playtech hold about 10% of our issued shares they have made a fantastic profit in a short time.It will be interesting to see whether they will start to dispose of some of their shares & if so who the buyer may be.