Crawshaw Share Discussion Threads

[playful] 25/5/2016 10:25

You can view their most recent investor presentation here..



They should move into North Yorkshire now York and Scarborough would seem a sensible choice

Nigel arrives at John Crawshaws...

[tadders2] 25/5/2016 09:25

Another 100,0000 buy this morning.

[playful] 24/5/2016 06:46

CRAWSHAWS GROUP, the expanding butchers chain, is to create 20 jobs after it invested £250,000 in a new West Bromwich site.

It will open its 46th store next month on the site of former Chinese restaurant Jade Crystal in Dudley Street and it will become the group's fourth, and largest, Fresh Meat Factory Shop.

[battlebus2] 22/5/2016 20:31

Must also have a penchant for claret and blue :))

[tadders2] 21/5/2016 22:05

Makes you wonder when they own more than 10% of the shares.

[davidosh] 21/5/2016 21:42

Giles did get a few bits wrong though when he stated....

..They started out with a dozen shops and it’s now up to 34, and they’re all making very good returns, as forecast. He’s raised money a couple of times but cashflow from existing stores will finance the roll-out.'


He was only interviewed a few days ago so maybe if we tell him it has jumped to 45 stores he will be instantly buying more shares ! Also Noel has never raised any money..it was already in the bank ready for the roll out once he arrived and for the record Noel and the board are totally against raising any more money as they do not want dilution and have no need for it under the current roll out plan for 15 to 20 stores a year.

[tadders2] 21/5/2016 20:45

Yes...it gives you great confidence in this investment.

[playful] 21/5/2016 20:25

This made me smile ...

It’s a classic Hargreave Hale investment in that we got in relatively small, relatively early. We followed it very closely and every time it takes a step forward we buy some more. I went to see the Worksop store and bought plenty more shares when I came back, and it’s now one of our bigger holdings.

[playful] 20/5/2016 09:26

Sterling rallied to 1.305 euro yesterday, the currency’s best level since early February. This should help our margins as much of our meat comes in from Europe.

[gengulphus] 19/5/2016 10:12

supernumerary,

And I'm saying that if they released the information we could decide for ourselves what it meant. ...

Agreed.

... But they don't and won't, so that's that.

Very probably, though a change of mind is always possible. But I was replying to someone who clearly wants to try to persuade them to change their minds - and anyone who wants to do that needs to understand what a realistic official trade classification system can and cannot do, given the variety of trades that actually exist, and to decide whether they actually think it worthwhile to pursue such a system (as opposed to the unrealistic 'every trade is either a buy or a sell' system that DiscoDave4 clearly had in mind).

Gengulphus

[playful] 19/5/2016 07:09

I might pop in on the Bradford event to learn where the store is opening.

I seem to remember noticing a nice unit on the corner next to HMV and directly opposite Sainsbury on the outside of the Broadway shopping centre that would be ideal.

Its also significant that Patisserie Valerie opened in Bradford and told us this week that because of lower rentals than larger cities, and with good sales Bradford are exceeding managements expectations.

[mcmather] 18/5/2016 23:01

Busy month ahead for CRAW:

[mcmather] 18/5/2016 23:00

Crikey, well done Hull council. Time wasting bells.

Appreciate it was kicked out but the original ruling makes more sense:

The dispute stemmed from a routine food hygiene inspection in 2011 in two Greggs’ stores in the Hull area, which found that there were no facilities provided, and Kingston upon Hull City Council logged a complaint to Newcastle City Council (NCC), as it is Greggs’ Primary Authority and in charge of the bakery chain’s health and safety regulation.

Councillor Stephen Powers, cabinet member for community safety and regulation, added: “I am delighted that the city council’s guidance that customer toilets should not be required in premises with less than 10 seats has been backed by the Department for Business. I believe this was a victory for common sense and shows that the city council is on the side of business and not in the game of overburdening companies with redtape and bureaucracy.”


Reckon this could send quite a few enterprises across the uk out of business; think of butty shops, chippies, etc, which have a handful of seats for its customers to wait / read the paper / have a brew / etc but no bog. People choose to go to likes of mcdonalds instead of other places because they have bogs; ie if there is a commercial advantage, isn't it their's? I expect the appeal to succeed.

[playful] 18/5/2016 22:33

Possible additional capex spend on our Derby store...

Greggs could be forced to provide toilets in all its stores that have customer seating following a High Court ruling.

[shanklin] 17/5/2016 12:36

I look forward to WBA winning the PL in 16/17 :-)

[davidosh] 17/5/2016 11:29

Here is a link to the West Bromwich factory store news...

[tadders2] 17/5/2016 11:09

New factory shop opening in West Bromich.....number 46.

[mcmather] 17/5/2016 08:19

Annual report is now available on the website:

[mcmather] 16/5/2016 23:36

Think the company might be bankrupt following today's turnout in Leicester....

[supernumerary] 16/5/2016 20:16

And I'm saying that if they released the information we could decide for ourselves what it meant. But they don't and won't, so that's that.

[gengulphus] 16/5/2016 19:13

supernumerary - as I said, I'm sure that it's technically feasible to produce a trade classification system based on real information about the trades (rather than on price-based guesses). And I would be quite surprised if the LSE didn't have such a system - or even quite possibly multiple such systems for different purposes!

My point is rather that classifying "a trade as exactly what it is, either a buy or a sell" is an unrealistic aim for such a classification system, because a fair number of trades (especially the bigger trades) have equally good cases for being described as buys as for being described as sells. And that I suspect that if people got a trade classification system that realistically dealt with such trades, they would find it didn't really give the clear picture of what is going on that they want...

Gengulphus

[supernumerary] 16/5/2016 18:01

Gengul - the SE already does this classification for its own reporting purposes. It just doesn't choose to show it to outsiders.

[discodave4] 16/5/2016 17:33

Thanks Gengulphus for your feedback.DD