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Institutions account for 22.13% of QUIZ’s shares. Quiz Clothing, the womenswear retailer was founded in Glasgow in 1993, focused on women’s “occasion wear and dressy casual wear” for 16-35-year-olds and says it has adopted “fast fashion” processes that allow it to bring designs into shops quickly. It has 73 standalone stores in the UK, more than 165 concessions in the regions and Republic of Ireland and 65 franchise stores across 19 countries. There’s still good growth in stores . . . but the real growth story over the next few years will be international and online (see ASOS Boohoo).

The company was formed through the demerger of Aussie-listed Reckon’s document management and software business. Just over 80% of total sales came from recurring revenue subscriptions Key focus for the second half of the year remains streamlining operations, continuing to meet customers' product demand and identifying new growth opportunities through R&D, additional acquisition channels. The group’s key assets are two document-management software products – SmartVault and Virtual cabinet with a current combined user base of 56,000 customers.

Floated at 100p and have steamed up. Strix’s stock-in-trade is the design, manufacture and supply of kettle safety controls, though its range does extend to other components and devices involving water heating and temperature control, steam management and water filtration. Its main direct customers for safety controls are original equipment manufacturers involved in the production of kettles and other small domestic appliances. Globally, Strix estimates that 174 million kettles were sold last year, giving Strix a 38% global market share. The emerging Chinese middle class is helping to drive market growth for all 71 employees of this Isle of Man business.

In 1986, keen anglers Martyn Page, now 62, and William Hill opened their first small fishing-tackle shop. By the end of their first day, they had sold just £20 worth of stock. The pair, who met while working for an accountancy firm, decided to target affluent anglers. Page had been making his own fishing kits since the late 1960s. As profits trickled in, Page and Hill snapped up two nearby shops and, in 1996, they opened Britain’s first fishing-tackle superstore. Today there are 15 Angling Direct shops in the UK, generating pre-tax profits of £660,000 on sales of £21m. Three new shops are due to open in the autumn, catering to a £570m market in Britain employing 170 staff. Main Competitor : Fishing Republic (FISH) - share price 40p

Stockholders of record on Tuesday, August 22nd will be given a dividend of GBX 1.30 per share on Wednesday, September 20th. This represents a dividend yield of 0.98%.

Buying 298 stores from the Co‑op, the benefits should materialise over a number of years and transform the prospects for sales growth and profit margins. McColl's 1,300 convenience stores and 350 newsagents put it in a solid strategic position, which bodes well in a sector that is expected to consolidate further. With Morrisons now going to supply Safeway branded products, it's a win-win for both Morrisons & McColls.

Stobart Group retains a 12.5pc stake in Eddie Stobart Logistics, the trucking firm, in which it sold a majority stake in 2014 to invest in its new biomass business.

Exceptional £2.8 million impairment charge due to the revaluation of a freehold property full-year results on August 23rd

Laura Ashley girl's dresses have been recalled due to a choking hazard. According to the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission website, the Laura Ashley London girl's floral clip dot dresses have been recalled because they have flower petals that can detach, posing a choking hazard to children. The dresses were sold in newborn to girl’s sizes 0/3M through 6X at Dillard’s stores nationwide and online from Amazon and Zulily for between $27 and $40 from January 2017 through July 2017.

1983 - 1996 - Executive October 28, 2004 until August 10, 2017 - resigned as independent non-executive director

After selling the Kurt Salmon retail and consumer goods business to Accenture last year and now focusing on just one company, Alexander Proudfoot consulting business. The performance of Proudfoot, is disappointing, but it continues to deliver value to clients and remains a distinctive and recognised brand and an established global operator in key sectors. Proudfoot requires management focus and further change to restore the business to profitable growth, Revenues from the Americas region represented approximately 62% and Revenues from the Europe, Africa and Asia region represented approximately 38%. Reducing headcount and discretionary expenditure, the move to a new regional structure,and further action on back office support costs being taken, both in the Proudfoot operations and at the MCG head office, which should benefit profitabilty in the medium term.

VirtualStock Holdings Limited (‘VS’) goal is to transform global B2B supply chains and marketplaces through its ability to seamlessly and rapidly connect systems together. VS's core platform (‘The Edge’) is already used by leading retailers including Tesco, John Lewis, Sainsbury's, Argos and Dixons ****hone to support their digital and omni-channel strategies. VS also counts the leading NHS Trusts amongst its clients; within this, it now operates in partnership with NHS Shared Business Services to incorporate The Edge into its systems is intended to help realise up to £1bn of annual savings through transforming the end-to-end procurement process.

Estate agents Hunters has added yet another branch to its network of over 30 offices in London with its new Shoreditch outlet. With over 200 nationwide offices, Hunters’ successful expansion is built around excellent customer service and unrivalled proactivity, these are values and beliefs that have been at the core of the business since its conception. The York-based company is celebrating its 25th anniversary this year and it is well on the way to achieving its goal of becoming the nation’s favourite estate agency. In my opinion another successful Yorkhire company.

Last week FinnCap had forecast of 80 but this week Peel Hunt have a price target of 210

Andrew Monk acquired 10,126,761 shares dated Wednesday, August 2nd. The shares were acquired at an average price of GBX 0.73 per share, with a total value of £7,392,535.53. Total holding now 12,126,761 following a rise in revenue and a steady margin failed to prevent its pretax loss from swelling in the first half of the financial year as "significant legal and admission expenses" were booked related to publishing its prospectus. Last Year Non-Executive Chairman Neil Herbert looked set to pull the company from its London listing after launching a strategic review. However, by September 2016 Herbert had been replaced by eminent AIM investor and director David Lenigas and the company raised further funds to grow its South African manufacturing and marketing business Dynamic Intertrade (Pty) Ltd - which remains at the heart of Anglo African Agriculture. Tthe outlook for looks strong and exciting.

Peel Hunt reaffirmed their buy rating on shares of Joules Group PLC (LON:JOUL), even FinnCap had a buy rating. Last week it was Liberum Capital and Beaufort Securities.

As austerity bites, the number of customers upgrading their mobile phones drops. There has been a reduction in the number of customers upgrading their phones and an unbundling of handset and network contracts with new players entering the marketplace like Skymobile and BTmobile. Both these new entrants, BT and Sky are happy to be aggressive to build their marketshare.

There is a plan to break the company at the end of the financial year but will this go ahead and will it affect the share price ?

Money is made by charging a set fee to sellers, whether they sell or not, and they'll be charged extra for viewings. If they defer the fee until after the sale, the debt is sold to Close Brothers and they are obliged to use eZie Conveyancing unless they pay a fee as featured on BBC Watchdog. The no sale, no fee model used by other estate agents is still popular.