Stylo Share Discussion Threads

[typo56] 31/3/2004 11:55

RNS confirms. Petchey now holds 16.35%. Value must surely out eventually.

[typo56] 30/3/2004 20:14

Wonder if Petchey mopped up another 3.8% today.

[niggle] 17/3/2004 11:26

spread down to 5.8% and buying inside

[niggle] 17/3/2004 11:26

spread down to 5.8% and buying inside

[niggle] 17/3/2004 10:24

True Doddy, tho some buying at 50p I suppose they will shorten it if there is a stir

[niggle] 17/3/2004 08:50

amazed the daytraders haven't got hold of this, chart is vertical on small buying:

[niggle] 15/3/2004 11:41

SCHEDULE 10

NOTIFICATION OF MAJOR INTERESTS IN SHARES


1) NAME OF COMPANY

STYLO PLC


2) NAME OF SHAREHOLDER HAVING A MAJOR INTEREST

TREFICK LIMITED


3) Please state whether notification indicates that it is in respect of
holding of the Shareholder named in 2 above or in respect of a
non-beneficial interest or in the case of an individual holder if it is a
holding of that person's spouse or children under the age of 18

IN RESPECT OF THE SHAREHOLDER NAMED IN 2 ABOVE


4) Name of the registered holder(s) and, if more than one holder, the
number of shares held by each of them.

T.B.A.5) Number of shares/amount of stock acquired.

2,934,591


6) Percentage of issued Class

6.99%

7) Number of shares/amount of stock disposed


8) Percentage of issued Class


9) Class of security

LIMITEDVOTING ORDINARY SHARES


10) Date of transaction

11 MARCH 2004


11) Date company informed

15 MARCH 2004


12) Total holding following this notification

5,284,591


13) Total percentage holding of issued class following this notification

12.58%

[typo56] 12/3/2004 16:09

inki: Thanks for pointing that out. Quite right, I hadn't taken into account the voting rights of the Management Shares. Looks like at August 2002 the total voting rights amounted to 51.8%, but that may have increased since.

Will still be interesting to see who's been buying and selling the 5%.

[inki] 12/3/2004 12:51

The Ziff family have voting control over this company. This was achieved recently when a buy back of shares took place. Their control exceeds 60% of voting power according to the August 2002 Company circular. Trefick does not stand a chance other than temporary movements in price. Make hay while the sun shines.

[typo56] 12/3/2004 11:56

I think the Ziff family hold a bit over 40%.

[cg1953] 12/3/2004 09:47

am i not right the 'ziff' family control this company ?

[typo56] 12/3/2004 09:28

Looks like another 5% was mopped up yesterday. At 42p paid a premium too. Up 13% on a otherwise dire morning as a result. Await the RNS with interest. Petchey topping up?

[niggle] 18/2/2004 12:02

the mm's are continuing to mark this up for some reason!, must the the Petchy stake.

[niggle] 17/2/2004 21:15

And now we know has upped their stake: Interesting..............

LONDON (AFX) - Stylo PLC said Trefick Ltd, the investment vehicle of
property entrepreneur Jack Petchey, has acquired 2.2 mln shares in the company,
equivalent to a stake of 5.24 pct.
Following the deal, Trefick holds 2.35 mln Stylo shares, representing 5.59
pct of the share capital.
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[niggle] 13/2/2004 16:33

2.2 million shares bought at 40p I wonder who's bought? a funny X trade ???

[energyi] 21/1/2004 14:30

chelle,
Your 9 year old is going to grow up very wise asking questions like that

[chelle] 21/1/2004 11:26

whoa - the church serves a lot of people well. Without wishing to sound like an evangelical looney (I cannot stand extremism - and the American lot are the worst in my opinion, they will not tolerate any other religion other than "bible bashing") I know a lot of fine people who practice their Catholic religion. For most it is a chance to celebrate their community and bring up their children in an environment that looks beyond ones own needs all the time. I appreciate there is much hypocritism in religion, but in it's simplest form it is for the individual to find "God" within themselves and be the best they can, if that means people take comfort in attending an iconist ceromony in order to focus their minds in this busy world, then so be it. Flippin' 'eck that's a bit deep for January!!

[energyi] 20/1/2004 23:48

WHAT's UP...?
THE ITALIAN EXAMPLE

In September of 1911, Italy went to war with Turkey. Then, WWI provided fresh diversions. But after the war, the debts mounted even higher. The pre-war debt was 15 billion lire. When the war ended it was 4 times as much. But after the war came new promises... and old-age pension system... unemployment insurance ...a national heath care plan. The deficit reached 11 billion lire in 1919..then rose to 17 billion in 1921. How could the debts possibly be paid? Was there anyway out, people wondered?

It was at this point that a scoundrel worthy of the crisis arrived on the scene - and proceeded to make things worse. Benito Mussolini was the man for the job - energetic, opportunistic ...with no scruples or fixed positions to hamper his movements. Mussolini, like Roosevelt, Bush, Brown and practically every politician elected to any office in the entire 20th century, denounced the loose spending policies of his predecessors...and then spent even more. He decried the unbalanced budgets that had brought Italy to the brink of ruin...and then piled new debt on the heavy end of the scale. Taking office in 1921, he found himself with a debt of 93 billion lire. By 1943, the New York Times estimated that his debt had risen to 405 billion lire, with a deficit for the year of 83 billion lire.

"Spending had become a settled part of the policy of fascism to create national income," concluded Flynn, "except that the fascist state spent upon a scale unimaginable to the old premiers."
"We were able to give a new turn to financial policy," explained an Italian pamphlet from the period, "which aimed at improving the public services and at the same time securing a more effective action on the part of the state in promoting and facilitating national progress."

The policy ended in disaster.

Spending on domestic programs shifted to spending on military ones. Soon, Italy was at war again. In blood, steel, shame, disgrace, and financial ruin...it settled its accounts.

Bill Bonner, The Daily Reckoning

[energyi] 20/1/2004 17:31

Looks like people are going to be a little frugal
with their membership fees

[dave37] 20/1/2004 17:28

ah, ignore me...........

[energyi] 20/1/2004 17:26

haha, MTG... love it.

May have to start the
Society for Life-Enhancing Frugality ("SocLEF")