Rare Earths Share Discussion Threads

[sscrabble] 05/6/2008 11:28

350k buys - 100k sells - no rns - price drops 30% - anyone suspect insider dealing?

[t1lal] 05/6/2008 11:19

OFFER TALKS TERMINATED?

[sscrabble] 04/6/2008 20:27

there is still supposed to be an offer - how long can that go on for until they have to issue an update ? - 15th january they announced it !!

[vod999] 04/6/2008 19:11

freefall down to around 3-4p

[isis] 26/5/2008 14:13

Perhaps the Directors who supported the smoking ban can explain to shareholders exactly what they were thinking now the share price has dropped 90%? - no coincidence I'm afraid Pubs have surivived many a reccession and we are not even technically in one yet!

Sales slump at Regent Inns

* Simon Bowers
* guardian.co.uk,
* Friday May 16 2008
* Article history

Regent Inns, the struggling pub and comedy club operator, has seen sales at its entertainment bars division slump by almost 11% so far this year as its Walkabout chain continued to be hit hard by increased competition, rising costs and the smoking ban.

Regent has already cancelled dividend payments, cut capital expenditure and in March sold and leased back seven freehold properties. These steps shaved £1.6m off the £79m net debt, which is still more than four times its market capitalisation.

Comparable sales at Regent's core entertainment division fell 3.8% before Christmas but today Bob Ivell, the executive chairman, said this trend had worsened markedly, with like-for-like sales down 10.9%. The figure would have been worse were it not for a "robust" performance from the 12 Jongleurs comedy clubs.

Regent has seen its shares collapse by almost 90% in the last year. It said it was still talking to potential bidders, which are believed to be Sun Capital, the buyout group led by Punch Taverns' founder Hugh Osmond, and the privately owned nightclub group Brooks Leisure. Alchemy Partners is no longer involved in talks.

Four pubs a day are closing in Britain, according to the British Beer & Pub Association. Among the worst hit are late-night high-street bars on leases. Casualties include Laurel Pub Company, CanDu, Massive Pub Company, Soho Clubs & Bars and Sports Cafe.

With no home nation in the Euro 2008 football tournament next month, investors are hoping that the sports-focused Regent will benefit from a summer free from last year's exceptional downpours.

[brownan] 19/5/2008 12:43

Fall was due to announcement of a 10.9% fall is sales at walkabout in the last 4 months due to smoking ban and increased duty. If they can hold on this could recover in the summer

[vod999] 15/5/2008 19:27

i suspect thats it next stop suspension

[privileged] 15/5/2008 16:38

That's shocking if there is news of no bid tomorrow - will write to FSA over this if insiders caused 25% fall today... but nothing will happen

[sscrabble] 15/5/2008 14:01

steady recovery for a couple of weeks and now off a cliff today - no doubt some bad news coming that insiders have already acted on !!

[brownan] 13/5/2008 14:01

creeping in the right direction.

[audereestfacere] 28/4/2008 16:16

Capital! The sun is shining on us and I'll brook no argument.

[themariner] 22/4/2008 12:30

The 2 bits of news I can think might possibly be coming are:

1. Sale and leastback on freehold properties; and

2. Alleged/rumoured sale of Jongleurs - pretty old now but this may well have taken a long time for various reasons, inc. funding difficulties. The former owners were seemingly looking for another partners with whom to bid, in a fairly brazen attempt possibly to repeat history, and where they somehow manage to pursuade someone else to take most of the risk, put in most of the difficult work (running the ops), whilst they continue to reap a disproportionate share of profit through retention of the name and for things like booking the acts.

Beware - the only people who have made money out of Jongleurs have been John Davy and Maria Kenpinska - Regent shareholders don't seem to have reaped any benefit. I think they'll try and do it all over again.

But Regent should ditch them. Foeget the name, its tarnished now. They don't need John and Maria's service/expertise to book, plenty of agents can do it.

But progress on either or both of these issues could be welcome to Regent as it makes for a cleaner less indebted business. I've always felt that having 17 or 18 comedy clubs (frightening/troublesome for pubco's who have no skills in this arena),plus the debt level is the reason that REG is never taken out/put out of its misery!

News on these could clear the decks?

[audereestfacere] 22/4/2008 11:36

I see someone just got 13.5p per share for a 75,000 sell!

[brownan] 22/4/2008 08:09

Strange, I thought the levels of activity yesterday (high volume of trades for 1250 shares) meant some info was leaking into the market, maybe not!

[brownan] 21/4/2008 21:32

An interesting day today, could it be possible news is just around the corner. Good luck to all holders

[brownan] 07/4/2008 11:33

may have gone through on plus - put reg.gb in your monitor it will give you a view of trades on the plus market

[hupgomwat] 04/4/2008 19:18

I Bought 10k today and it hasn't shown......so i wouldn't believe the figures.

[audereestfacere] 04/4/2008 16:31

Not a great deal of trading over the past two days!

[brownan] 19/3/2008 20:56

Last trade is down as a sell, does not bode well for the morning

[turkey3] 19/3/2008 17:26

2,160.883 @16p somethings cooking, bid 2moro maybe???

[audereestfacere] 18/3/2008 16:21

The takeover is taking too long and the share price is down to 16p.

[brownan] 12/3/2008 10:36

From last Friday Times:

[scrapman] 12/3/2008 10:20

what happened to the bid gossip , thought they had to make a move within a month ??