Ffastfill Share Discussion Threads

[groin] 28/1/2007 20:54

4 days to go and rhen its put or shut up time.
I see them walking away but the MM's won't want to sell at a loss.

[bugs bunny] 24/1/2007 15:46

In the last 14 days of trading there been 1,640,121 sells approx and 537,00 buys approx.

[groin] 24/1/2007 14:01

Well they wouldn't be taking on stock with a view to having to sell it at a lower price in the event of a bid not being forthcoming now would they?
The MMs must be stuffed to the gills with stock and still they hold firm.
Next Thursday is day 28 so a bottle of VAT 69 and a strip of Zantac will be close at hand next week.

[bugs bunny] 24/1/2007 12:52

KBC seem to have taken that 240k sell on the chin......Perhaps they know something about the bid we don't after all they are FFA brokers.

[groin] 23/1/2007 21:59

Its a mystery and no mistake.
The price has been steady in the face of some serious selling so the MMs must be stuffed with stock, that is unless they are filling an order, which I doubt.

[bugs bunny] 22/1/2007 16:42

Very odd????? But Very Interesting

[groin] 22/1/2007 16:29

Very odd. FFA announce a tranche of 250k options are to be excerised and WINS go up!

[groin] 22/1/2007 13:51

Am I right in thinking that KBC are actually buying stock and not just declaring stock purchased when acting as a MM?

I clocked Friday's trades and fully expected to see KBC announcing that they had picked up at least another 200k but where has this 15k come from?

I think you can safely say that I don't really understand the rules and looking at the code on the takeover panel site, I don't anyone would blame me!!

[bugs bunny] 22/1/2007 11:58

Still BBBBBBBUUUUUUUZZZZZZING

[bugs bunny] 19/1/2007 12:37

Hi Groin this board is really BBBBBUUUUUUUUUUUUUZZZZZZZZZING....Just can't keep up with it all.

Seriously.....The management are really keeping there possible suitors name really quiet......I would have something would have leaked out by now.

[groin] 18/1/2007 21:19

I see Yahoo have FFA at £1.19m EBITA and £450k pre tax for 2007.

[bugs bunny] 18/1/2007 09:25

PTS still flying upward......They will soon out of sight......It's know wonder PTS's Chairman denied any approach for FFA so quickly.

[bugs bunny] 17/1/2007 14:19

Thanks Groin that gives me some sort of idea.

Thats one hell of a good contract for PTS aswell.......I personaly can't remember the last substancial contact FFA announced.......It's no wonder we have Nortrust taking a stake in FFA....Lets hope they can give KT and the board something to think about and the future........Lets hope they can advice them how to release the FULL value of FFA stock and it to be reflected in the share price.....They could also advise them on PR which has been very lacking for many years if FFA ever had a PR dept to start with...... They do NEED a little bit of encouragement from someone with some clout as they have been living in the comfort zone for sometime now where shareholders are concerned.

[groin] 17/1/2007 13:33

I think we are in a bit of a muggers buddle at the moment. The rules are that once a move has been made but not a formal bid, they have 28 days to lodge a formal offer or go away. My reading of the situation is that we have neither received a formal offer or even a real approach.

Good news if you are holding PTS, they have signed Nomura Inc in the US for another £400k PA contract.

Now how long has it been since FFA signed anyone or anything? Has anyone on this BB got a memory that good!
I was thinking if FFA intend using their growing order book as part of their defence, I wouldn't bank on being independent by next Christmas.

WINS now marking them down, so the 8p+ arena is becoming just a happy memory and a slide back looks inevitable.

[bugs bunny] 17/1/2007 12:01

Anybody out there who know's how long this process takes?????? From an announcement of a approach to a formal bid on the the table.

[groin] 14/1/2007 01:22

Here, here to that Bugs. The move is timed to get a growing product on the cheap.

[bugs bunny] 12/1/2007 17:03

I wonder whose stake they bought?
One thing that comes across is that they didn't hang around. They raised £50m and started spending almost from go. That indicates that the managers have had FFA on their radar for some time. Just waiting for the news that we are on the verge of profitability and pounce.
We then have consider what connection is there to the as yet unknown suitor? This is because it doesn't take a genius to work out that Nortrust buy a stake, then as if by magic, 3 weeks later an approach is made to the company; that it could be by some chance more than coincidental!
I am back in profit now, so in a lot of ways I should be thankful for the rise, but I am not happy about the timing of the approach. It's obviously good news for the third parties investors but not so hot holders like me who have held for over 3 years. Even a bid at 12p is hardly the double/treble bagger I had been holding for. The stress free investment in the proverbial Building Society would have been a better choice by half.
The suitor can see the potential for the FFA offering and has stirred the market into looking at FFA. If FFA can stave them off until we do get meat on the plate then that would be better for us and would be fighting from a greater position of strength.

[ffastfill] 12/1/2007 13:08

found this of interest, in regards to comments from others in the field about ffastfills takeover... a week or so old though

[bugs bunny] 12/1/2007 13:08

Thanks dsuk1........Interesting development.

[dsuk1] 12/1/2007 12:06

Advance AIM Value Realisation Company Limited ("AIMVARC") shareholding is registered in the name of Nortrust Nominees Limited. So now we know

[groin] 12/1/2007 11:45

So that means a big holder sold to this outfit in the last month or so.
This could explain the sudden interest in FFA and can only be a positive for the rest of us still holding.
One way or another FFA is going to be a different animal in 2007.

[bugs bunny] 12/1/2007 09:41

From today's IC.
VERY INTERESTING STAKE!!!!

A number of the alternative investment market's (Aim) unloved companies have recently been informed that they have a new shareholder that could provide a wakeup call for management.

The Advance Aim Value fund was set up late last year to exchange its shares for holdings in Aim companies that big institutional investors want to get out of. The fund's goal is to exit from the holdings that it has been saddled with by whatever means best serves its shareholders. It then returns the booty to them. A kind of outsourced shareholder activism.

Previous incarnations of the fund have been highly adept at this. The Third Advance Value Realisation fund played and active role in encouraging the bid that eventually took struggling recruitment firm MSB International off the market, and Second Advance Value Realisation was instrumental in encouraging the takeover of Burger King franchisee Gowrings.

"We're at an early stage with the new fund" says fund manager Robert Legget, "we are doing further research on our new holdings and will be engaging with the executive boards to discuss progress."

One noteworthy stake held by the fund is Quantica (Last IC View: Fairly Priced, 50p, 31 Aug). Like MSB, it is a recruitment company that has disappointed shareholders, and as well as the near 7 per cent stake held by the Advance AIM Value realisation fund the Third Advance fund holds over 4 per cent. Quantica has recently sold two businesses for £16.5m and now looks like it should either be acquired or, alternatively, go on the acquisition trail itself - if its shareholders let it, that is.

"I think the management of Quantica are well aware of the dissatisfaction of a number of its investors aside from just us," says Legget.

Other large holdings that the new Advance fund has picked up include a 16.6 per cent stake in loan broker Compass Finance (Last IC View: Fairly Priced, 47p, 16 June), 9.2 per cent of oil and gas services company Rheochem (Last IC View: Buy, 14.5p, 21 April), 9 per cent of silo firm TEG Environmental (Last IC View: Buy, 63p, 6 Oct), 8.9 per cent of hotel company Red Leopard Holdings, and 8.1 per cent of financial software company Ffastfill.

[bugs bunny] 11/1/2007 22:00

Vey good posting Groin.....16p to 24p here we come. I have been following KT for some years now and one of his biggest fans.....If anyone can get the full value out this stock KT can and I'm not talking 12p here and now.

This Bid is a very cheeky.....Just when KT and the board and the employee's are at the beginning, and after all the real hard work has been done.

[groin] 11/1/2007 21:40

I found this about Keith Todd's arrival at Amino.
He did a good job at ICL, getting a really good price when it was sold. Just hope he can do the same for us!

New chair boosts Amino share price
By Business Weekly, 10 January 2007, emailed 9 times

Amino Technologies' stock shot up over eight per cent as it announced that the vastly experienced Keith Todd had succeeded Grant Masom as non-executive chairman of the Cambridge-based IPTV (Internet Protocol TV) specialist.
Amino Technologies' stock shot up over eight per cent as it announced that the vastly experienced Keith Todd had succeeded Grant Masom as non-executive chairman of the Cambridge-based IPTV (Internet Protocol TV) specialist.

As chief executive of ICL plc (now Fujitsu Services) from 1996 to 2000, Todd, aged 53, was responsible for the firm's transformation from a hardware product company to a $4 billion revenue IT services company.

More recently he finished a three year stint as non-executive chairman of the UK Broadband Stakeholder Group, an organisation focused on identifying actions to accelerate the adoption of broadband services in the UK, which included key players both from the public sector and industry.

He is currently executive chairman and CEO of FFastFill plc, a software and services company focused on the capital markets and non-executive chairman of Magic Lantern, a new media company supplying the broadband market.

Bob Giddy, Amino's CEO, said: "We are pleased to welcome the appointment of Keith Todd as our new chairman. Keith brings to Amino a combination of both large and small public company experience together with a huge experience of the internet broadband sector."

Amino's share price finished the day 4.5p ahead at 57.25p a share, an increase of 8.53 per cent.