Boot (henry) Share Discussion Threads

[psps] 27/10/2004 15:24

sorry guys i only wanted to sell 3,500.......just pressed a few extra zeros

[pineapple1] 27/10/2004 15:19

Well someone just dumped 3.5m.Do they know something we don't.

[keifer derrin] 27/10/2004 08:51

links to newspaper reports on the "new guy"

[jedi shorter] 25/10/2004 14:45

LOL.. now its mobile phones! so girlys if you need to print a digital photo, buy a rampant rabbit and also purchase a new mobile this is the place to be!

They will start selling hammers, nails and building materials next just in case a handyman happens to be taking a short cut through the shop!

UK: BOOTS TO SELL NOKIA PRODUCTS IN-STORE
NOKIA will partner with Boots, to sell mobile phones in the British firm's stores. Nokia and Boots said in a statement the partnership would focus on selling digital printers to print photos taken on mobiles as well as handsets. The concept will be rolled out to 50 Boots stores in the UK by mid-November following a recent trial in 3 stores. Specially created in-store sales areas will promote the digital processing technology. "Boots is the ideal partner to bring the concept of mobile imaging to the mass market," Nokia UK Imaging Business Manager Mirko Aksentijevic said.

[jedi shorter] 25/10/2004 13:32

Boots to take on Anne Summers!! roflmao i bet Annes really worried, interims out this thursday and i expect them to be cack! ill have my cash and profit by the end of the week!

[hectorp] 24/10/2004 13:54

Annakin, Boots seems a bit old fashioned and attracting older customers ... negative comment in weekend press somewhere... don't know about the beer and vibrators argument..wont affect sales this year anyway. I'd be tempted with a short, may see 30-40p fall bafore Mid December?
though evereything might get a markdown Monday early doors. I'll see what I can wangle short-wise.
H.

[jedi shorter] 22/10/2004 14:10

roflmao, and still it rises! the bottom will fall out of this dog before long and in the meantime if defys the laws of gravity!

This share is utter cack imho!

[jedi shorter] 19/10/2004 11:44

still in, cannot understand why the rise, newsfeed search's have revealed nothing, i have a stop on this but it will need to rise a fair bit more before i get burnt.

[psps] 19/10/2004 11:27

i have chickend out at 665p

[eastbourne1982] 19/10/2004 11:25

Going up today with the rest of the market, anyone getting burnt.

[psps] 18/10/2004 11:57

oh dear only 375,000 shares traded in BOOTS.
it seems no one wants to buy this share

[eastbourne1982] 17/10/2004 15:07

I read in the Times today that Boots is set to introduce the sale of beer and other forms of alcohol (to a limited scale). Either this is a positive move (?!?!?!) or it stinks of desparation. Discuss.

[keifer derrin] 15/10/2004 06:56

From The Telegraph this morning.


City briefs
(Filed:15/10/2004)

Boots' high street deal

Boots has sold its dentistry and laser eye surgery operations to Optical Express, a privately owned high street spectacles and contact lenses retailer with a laser eye correction and dentistry business.

It will take on 700 Boots employees of the approximate 850 jobs that will be lost. Richard Ratner, an analyst at Seymour Pierce, said: "I doubt if they [Boots] will get anything. . . but it will cost less than if they had to close them."

And this was from the Times Website this morning


Boots sells its eye and dental units
By Jenny Davey


BOOTS, the high street chemist chain, has sold its loss-making dental and laser eye correction businesses to Glasgow-based Optical Express, saving 700 jobs.
The eleventh-hour reprieve for Boots workers comes only weeks after the retailer announced plans to close the last of its "Wellbeing" businesses by the end of this year, at a cost of about £55 million.



Boots has spent an estimated £360 million over the past five years on its failed venture into health and beauty services.

Boots operates 54 dentistry practices and nine laser eye clinics, most of which are incorporated into Boots stores. A Boots spokesman said that Optical Express had bought the equipment and the patient lists, but not the property. He said that Boots planned to convert most of the units into ordinary shopfloor space, giving it room to expand its beauty, baby products and pharmacy business.

David Moulsdale, chief executive of Optical Express, approached Boots after it announced last month that the divisions would be closed down.

Optical Express is one of Europe's leading providers of laser eye correction, contact lenses and spectacles. The deal with Boots would make it the UK's third-largest dental services business.

[psps] 12/10/2004 10:40

bad trading
slower sales
shares buy backs
lower share price

[jedi shorter] 12/10/2004 10:33

LoL with such bad trading and slow business can they afford it? interesting to see how thats detailed in the accounts.

[psps] 12/10/2004 10:06

BOOTS hope that by buying back shares will boost share value
they have bought nearly 1mln shares since 4 oct thus spending £6.5 mln to cancel shares

[jedi shorter] 12/10/2004 09:52

Bye bye boots, any comments of the continous cancellation and buyback of there own shares.

[psps] 11/10/2004 08:13

oh well says it all

a FTSE stock and the only trade so far is a sell of 100 shares.

truly pathetic

[jedi shorter] 08/10/2004 16:41

its has to be in response to the earlier article.