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https://www.retailgazette.co.uk/blog/2018/10/house-frasers-manchester-store-close/

I bought at around the same time as you did yesterday afternoon on the basis that stob might rekindle its interest and the others might make more definite moves. I held on for the forties last time but suspect you got out in the thirties from when you posted to me on another board. Like lots of other companies, I think the ipo price here was a rip off and think I'll stick to the secondary market. I hope you used the rumour mongering to your advantage with foot lol Mike can't buy everything and accept completely your point about the longest takeover in history with deb.

Sam well he was consistently down on flyb but could never spot the rises, I wonder if smithy can fare better lol. I am off out to spread some flu germs and kill off the High Street for good lol good luck

Meantime both companies share prices are a complete disgrace!

As expected gone very quiet on here after all the brouhaha over the past couple of days but there's a holdings rns to mull over notified today.

Thanks for a very interesting post. Lost interest here after the Stob initial stushie died down and the bb had always lacked any real info Please Garydav no further attempts to resurrect sam!

Yeah his latest cunning plan is to get spd in house broker to say there is life in the old department store formula yet except that of Debenhams. I don't see any fillip to the spd share price though emanating from any recent developments at the Harrods of the north.

White Shark do you have any links to the most comprehensive of any of these articles you refer to. I read a not so flattering article by a Times and FT journalist today with a daft heading about bandages so wonder if your read that and thought it a pretty uneducated piece. Not sure if Numis are the house broker but I know they are right in saying that the chronic care business is showing continued steady growth. It's the nature of these bbs unfortunately for folk to churn out hackneyed one liners about mugs and dead cat bounces or even worse screeds of stuff with no decent facts or analysis whatever. Long journey ahead of me tomorrow so thanks in advance if I can't respond for a wee while.

I take it that you will not be beating the crowds by buying in the clouds this time Rbrand?

I'll be watching to see if the Christmas lights go out early again this year in Buchanan Street HO HO HO.

Here's a decent script. Jack's dad sent him to the market in Glasgow to buy some magic beans but the Rangers supporters ate the magic when Jack was returning home to dad but they all lived happily ever after. Get the Sunday Times journalists to come up with a script like that.

Missed the good trading update last week and the Patisserie Valerie news as was on holiday. My sell order will almost certainly have proceeded this morning and billston anybody involved with their own business venture will appreciate your position fully. These bbs are full of strong buy posters lol but they usually omit to say when they have sold. Equally I accept fully moniman's comments about better targets for Blackrock to short than Greggs. Perhaps they should look to Richard Bottomley's recent appointment with another retailer for some ideas. Can't be assed to check the spelling of that name. GLA

This is the crock that Odey and Ashley are invested in "New" House of Fraser brings new problems for customers https://www.theguardian.com/business/2018/oct/14/house-of-fraser-orders-refund-gift-card-spending

Glad to read you are in more positive mood these days Pearls lol.

Hi Dip Well HoF Glasgow was the most profitable or least loss making store in the chain which doesn't say much for the rest of the group. The generations who used it and bought their clothes in M & S are sadly dying off. I don't shop in Glasgow city centre very often because I can park for free in Silverburn and Braehead and the rest which the town planners saw as the way forward where debenhams have a presence but HoF never reached. The population of the city - after years of decline during Fraser's heyday - has stopped falling but that is purely down to the immigrants who wouldn't shop in Frasers as they open their own bazaars and mini emporium rivalling spd stock.

People make Glasgow and the "we are the people" Rangers supporters are not keen on Mike Ashley just as the Geordies feel about him. If sir Tom Hunter couldn't see HoF having much to offer him then I don't know what Mike's future son- in- law or godson or whoever he is, the head of elevation, thinks he can do with it. Remember EY were on the verge of letting it go for £1. Brilliant masterstroke that paying £90 million for something that never made a profit in years and risking losing out on debs to competitors and the only decent thing to have made money for him of late was buying shares in his rival jd.

The leader of Glasgow Council is obviously delighted at the Strathclyde Pension Fund getting shot of an old listed building where the floor boards creaked and any refurb plans will be bound up in red tape but she will need to tread very warily because if there is any whiff of zero hours contracts and the like, her party will be expected to speak out. Complete can of worms.

Hey Mulder you never know deb's could do a Next. Didn't the share price sink as low as 3p or something. Any more blunders from the family operation that is spd and you could get your wish. I guess some men should retire at 50 but they had better be sure the next generation have some talent and vision. Juries out at the moment.

Too risky now for me to look at again. French connection on the market? The founders of enrc were able to take it private for much less than the flotation price due to a similar low free float of shares to the one there is here. They offered a mix of a derisory cash sum for the company and shares in kaz which did pay off in the long run for anybody who waited for the copper price to rise but it would only be a cash offer from the founder for this and I wouldn't think it would be overly generous. Good luck though to holders.

https://www.investopedia.com/ask/answers/05/shortsalevotingrights.asp re. Magasin du Nord and any bidders

Dip long time until 2020 when this £95 million purchase by spd from the Strathclyde Pension Fund of the Frasers Glasgow site is due to complete. It is a massive store to fill and the city is at saturation point with sports direct goods and suspect not a large enough wealthy customer base left in Glasgow to support the sale of luxury goods in huge quantities - population of Glasgow decreasing. People shopping in out of city shopping malls. Bravot SPP if the deal concludes.

Oldbadger just one other thing in regard to the takeover threads, I think it was bisto said MA could block any other offer with 30% but I don't think so. I remember Suleyman Kerimov taking a similar stake in enrc which some considered as a move to block the founders taking the company private. Insufficient. Just as contrary to press reports, spd could not block any disposal of Magasin du Nord. Airport for me now and hopefully we can chat again soon

My mother-in-law made my poor father-in-law drive to Livingston - and every other M & S in the UK it has to be said - in all kinds of weather. My only recollection is of the Thorntons café in McArthur Glen outlet which is different I think to the Almondvale and remember lots of cook shops and why not given popularity of tv programmes. I'll do a trip to Edinburgh soon enough or get daughter to report back when visiting the halls of residence.

Debs will not be an Aims stock - small cap. There was an institutional investor loaning out shares long before spd or Odey had any interest here so you might find some happy to accept an offer. Invesco is the only one to have said publicly that they will not accept a low offer from spd but in the privacy of the ballet box folk can do anything they please. As a former spd holder, you will know that Mash is separate from spd. Mike Ashley is said to be fed up with football clubs and fed up with spd shareholders which may actually include Odey so you might find Mike will decide to feather the nest of Mash from here on in. I really have to go nowl was waiting for your return with bated breath lol.

And when you see how aerated Pokerchips has been on this bb over a couple of days with a modest rise in the deb's share price then you have to wonder if he or she will explode should the share record a double or triple (not entirely unknown in the small caps sector ) percentage rise in one day.

Okay yesterday I said I hadn't shopped at boohoo yet we have a poster on here saying it has big global plans.(same poster who thinks Mike Ashley was brutal to sack HoF top brass when it's what most folk would expect). I looked today at the company - targeting the 16 -30 years olds who as WGR will tell you can't get a foot on the property ladder and are relying on parents financially to buy their clothes and make up and all the rest. Then we have somebody being warned off posting on the boohoo bb. Why when there was only 2 posts on that bb today. Why only two posts. https://www.fool.co.uk/investing/2018/10/04/forget-boohoo-this-big-brand-growth-and-dividend-leader-is-selling-cheap/ I'm not agreeing or disagreeing with this article but I spot a sell off shares when I see it.

I would be most obliged if you could report back on your shopping trip to Edinburgh especially if you visit Jenners and the HoF branch which is closing down and deb. I visited Jenners in Loch Lomond recently and it looks like there will be no peaches in brandy for grandpa this Christmas. If I don't manage to get back to you thanks in advance but I'll certainly read it with interest when I get the opportunity. Ta.