Premier Eng. Share Discussion Threads

[aleman] 24/5/2013 16:00

The significant variation in accumulated income seems to have worked its way out. Accumulated income is now 4.99p, versus 4.73p this time last year.

[aleman] 21/5/2013 12:04

Ex-dividend next week.

[aleman] 16/5/2013 19:05

Discount up to 18.75% as of yesterday's close.

[skinny] 14/5/2013 12:14

Up to a near 2 year high this morning.

[philo124] 03/5/2013 07:15

Thanks; i am very pleased to be here.

[aleman] 25/4/2013 10:47

It's nice to see lots of microbreweries about but the beer they are producing seems to have less character/variation than years ago. I find many of them taste too similar. I blame the stupid subsidised biofuels policy that has seen local barley fields turned over to willow for woodchip production. (I say stupid because we pay more tax to put up the cost of beer and foods which have to be grown further away on fresh fields cleared from woodland. And it means we import more food.) Barley now has to be trucked in from further away so many small breweries will be brewing from more standardised malt. Also, mains water supplies are more integrated so there is less regional variation in water mineral content than there used to be. I think we maybe need more small breweries using local spring or bore-hole water with local barley. (I tend not to care for adulterated ales where fruit or chocolate are artificially added to get flavours that used to occur naturally from roasting malt and secondary fermentation and oxidation in the barrel.)

[skinny] 25/4/2013 07:35

A much harder question these days with the plethora of micro breweries and now even micro pubs.

[asmodeus] 25/4/2013 07:27

Harveys, for me.

[aleman] 24/4/2013 23:27

Many years ago, I would have said Timothy Taylor's Porter or Young's Premium. The porter recipe got weakened which ruined it. I've just not seen the Y.P. for ages. These days, I don't know. I like lots of Scottish stuff from the likes Harviestoun and Alloa but can't think of any one pint in particular that I favour.

[aleman] 24/4/2013 17:45

I know. Most meetings I've been to have only had 4 or 5 shareholders. I was the only one there once. I got there 10 minutes late and it had finished! THey still seemed quite pleased that I wanted to ask questions.

[asmodeus] 24/4/2013 17:33

But remember a large proportion of those were not ordinary shareholders.

[aleman] 24/4/2013 16:26

Thanks, asmodeus. I don't mean to pressure you. I got answers on the phone but they were not terribly meaningful. Sometimes, asking in the flesh can allow interpretation of tone and body language and you learn more from what they don't say. Part of the problem is not knowing what questions to ask, as well, so it is interesting to hear what crops up.

15-20 is a good turn out. 8-10 would be more typical of the small cap AGMs I've managed.

[asmodeus] 24/4/2013 14:37

I knew this would happen! I keep vowing never to reveal attendance at AGMs because of the inevitable need to answer difficult (for me) questions afterwards! Anyway as I recall it, there was no mention of increasing the Company's life, and the only reference to accumulating a reserve was simply to explain that the reserve is there so that dividends can be maintained even if income from the portfolio falls. I don't recall any mention of where the cash comes from for purchases. The Chairman, Geoffrey Burns,and other Directors, were very approachable after the business meeting itself, and a presentation by James Smith, plus questions afterwards, were over, and I am very surprised that your own has not yet been answered. Worth trying again, I think. I recommend strongly that more shareholders get to the AGM next year- my impression was that there were no more than 6 of us present yesterday, plus Directors etc. etc. making about 15 to 20 attenders altogether. You could always try Emailing Investment Manager James Smith on [e-mail] - tel: [phone].