Crawshaw Share Discussion Threads

[playful] 10/5/2016 07:57

Today's Jamie Vardy tweet made me chuckle although a little cheeky as it was when he played for stocksbridge and sponsored by John Crawshaw, but you can't knock their creativity.

[playful] 09/5/2016 22:42

Talk of Leicester is that Gary Lineker might be opening our new shop tomorrow morning in his pants...

[hydrus] 09/5/2016 15:48

Mr hangman then your personal circumstances might dictate that you invest for income rather than growth which would mean Crawshaws isn't for you. Better off in low risk funds?

[mcmather] 09/5/2016 15:46

Think that was a promotion H but any meat not sold then goes in to making the food to go range; "The combination of the fresh meat & food-to-go allows almost zero stock wastage" - page 7 of the latest presentation.

[mr hangman] 09/5/2016 15:33

Big dividends for me all day long, i have future care home fees to pay

[davidosh] 09/5/2016 15:20

Hangers....They are fairly canny at keeping those margins consistently high...each store makes £140k a year within two years of opening so if they halted the roll out this year and stopped investing for the future then that would be converted into positive cashflow and dividends but...why stop when you are winning ?

I prefer reinvestment into a winning formula rather than big dividends. It is better to have 200 Crawshaws spread around the UK and central overhead to be three times greater than when you just have 25 stores.

Furthermore as a plus point....doing it from cashflow means no further dilution and no hefty borrowings. The institutions would like to have another placing I am sure and the brokers would like the fees but this is an efficient roll out model.

[mr hangman] 09/5/2016 14:47

One wonders if they make a profit, with this small margin, no room for error

[playful] 09/5/2016 10:55

Huddersfield

[davidosh] 09/5/2016 10:44

Not sure which store this was photographed at but it sure looks busy....



They were selling 2kg packs of their award winning sausages for £4.99 at the weekend and perfect for the BBQ weather.

[playful] 09/5/2016 07:55

Greggs tell us this morning breakfasts + hot sandwiches driving growth, this certainly bodes well for us too.

[mcmather] 08/5/2016 20:43

Next lot of shops:

Trainee Retail Butcher | Full & Part Time | up to £7.50 Bilston (opening soon!)
Trainee Retail Butcher | Full & Part Time | up to £7.50 Gorton (opening soon!)
Trainee Retail Butcher | Full & Part Time | up to £7.50 Burnley (opening soon!)
Trainee Retail Butcher | Full & Part Time | up to £7.50 Kidderminster (opening soon!)
Retail Butcher | Full & Part Time | up to £9.00 West Bromwich (opening soon!)
Retail Cook | Full & Part Time | up to £8.00 Leicester (opening soon!)

[davidosh] 07/5/2016 15:26

BBQs coming out across England for today and tomorrow with sausage and steak sizzling weather conditions.

[mr hangman] 05/5/2016 13:11

More to the point, did she have a big chest ?

[playful] 05/5/2016 12:15

I pulled the barbecue out the garage this morning and thought I’d nip up to Bramley to get some meat.

Thankfully the car park is finished now so no headaches parking, simply parked outside the shop with no hassle and was happy to see it busy so early in the morning. The girl running the shop is always smiling and good with the customers and i'm so glad they have recognised this and promoted her to joint manager, it's well deserved especially having been with the company over 11 years.

They have a managers meeting (she said roadshow or something) shortly and got the impression it's a regular thing now instead of once a year. I told her I was worried about the new shops once the hand holding ends, but she seemed happy the support structure was in place. I reckon with the right mentoring she might make a good assistant regional manager one day, very impressed.

[battlebus2] 04/5/2016 23:19

Very concerning the recent press articles on abattoirs and their methods producing halal meat. Welfare standards not what I'd expect and certainly not what most consumers would expect. Hopefully Crawshaws have checks in place if when they ever source it. Hope Im right in saying we don't sell it at the minute??

[davidosh] 04/5/2016 22:40

At least three minutes spent discussing the new opening in Leicester and Halal meat !!

[playful] 03/5/2016 11:15

The most exciting retail opportunity on the landscape

[mr hangman] 03/5/2016 11:10

Somehow i can't imagine, Messi,Ronalado & Neymar queing up to buy their roasts
before the UCL game

[tadders2] 03/5/2016 10:45

How did your meeting with the team go? Leicester is really buzzing.

[davidosh] 03/5/2016 10:34

What a great time to open a very attractive new store in Leicester....

Leicester City are the newly crowned Premiership football Champions from 5000 to 1 at the start of the season and Mark Selby from Leicester is the snooker world champion. My contact there says the city is absolutely buzzing.

There will be hundreds of thousands of additional visitors to Leicester now and they will be playing in Europe in the Champions league so very much on the map and they all need feeding lol

[briangeeee] 02/5/2016 23:52

New shop in Leicester looks good and ready to go - due to open Tues 10th.

[mcmather] 30/4/2016 11:24

fwiw; 26 April 2016 - The stock of Crawshaw Group Plc (LON:CRAW) gapped up by GBX 1.25 today and has GBX 160.38 target or 98.00% above today’s GBX 81.00 share price.

[playful] 29/4/2016 13:53

Investor roadshow must be going well