Flying Brand Share Discussion Threads

[bollers] 24/10/2007 12:39

For what it's worth, part of the reason I bought these was with a t/o in mind.
Channel Properties and West Coast have about 40% between them, all bought in the last 12 months. Also the poor trading statement is largely temporary/one off problems. Shouldn't detract in the long term IMO.

[p@] 24/10/2007 12:36

Bought some this morning at 190 ,always thought they must have some juicy assets in Jersey ,thats why someone bought up big stake at £3 earlier.

[clocktower] 24/10/2007 12:14

A blip but not very nice for some of the very rich folks that bought up stakes at higher levels.

Could see an offer for the whole show maybe NTV?

[ntv] 23/10/2007 16:21

could be on its way down again ;-)))))

[ntv] 23/10/2007 09:12

felix
they warn every year nearly at some point because wether is unpredictable
selling excess stock etc through toms garden centre chain is ideal
promoting the other products like the flying flowers brand in his garden centres is ideal
just such a perfect fit and loads of ops worldwide could have made this a quality company
just need the right boys with control over the purse strings
the trouble is it is easy to run and generates loads of cash so the management is on permanent holiday so they take their of the ball and look what happens
look at their record

[lbo] 23/10/2007 09:10

Terrible trading statement

[felix99] 23/10/2007 09:07

so what price is it worth then in your opinion ?

[ntv] 23/10/2007 08:58

decks are bing cleared for the bid felix but at what price
channel and tom have stakes have stakes bought at a lot higher prices
big vat reclaim and property rsale should help cash
but this lot have always F*888d things up
never semm to predict anything
we didn't know there was going to be a postal strike so we never had a chance to communicate with our customers!!
lol
the destroyer makes another killing i hear

[felix99] 23/10/2007 08:40

do you not think there is worse to come and would you pay £40m or so for this ? Caveasts and warnings all over the statement again and more importantly no numbers ?

[ntv] 16/10/2007 08:44

i shall remain short

[ntv] 16/10/2007 08:44

i heard bigger boys trying to move the stock down again
interesting times

[ntv] 11/10/2007 22:50

plenty of other delivery firms

[smashingguy] 09/10/2007 18:28

postal strike?

[ntv] 09/10/2007 17:24

this has always had great potential but never quite made it
perhaps a change of management could make these assets really work

[ntv] 02/10/2007 09:10

interesting company again

[rnicolson] 26/7/2007 13:14

The share price weakness seems to suggest the market does not expect the results tomorrow to be great. I think it is inevitable that trading at Garden Direct will have been hit by the wet weather...the only question is by how much.

[cravencottage] 04/7/2007 20:39

bollers

I think after the MM tree shake and the two large trades of yesterday, the smart money has moved in for the results at the end of July.

Good old fashioned MM manipulation.

Don't you just love it!

CC

[bollers] 04/7/2007 13:52

Does anyone know the reason for the little flurry of small buys this morning? Was FBDU tipped somewhere?

[lame duck] 21/6/2007 18:25

@Beaufort, Could be They've sold their call center building, think they got a good price. - could be wrong though

[konkel] 20/6/2007 14:08

I think the Dobbies takeover has focussed attention for two reasons: firstly garden centres and the like have become very fashionable and are prized assets. Gardening Direct isn't the same, obviously, but nonetheless is in a similar space. Also, Tom Hunter and his pals are in the bidding for Dobbies and are also the major shareholder in FBDU (they paid 312.5p for their 29% stake as I remember) so the natural conclusion is that they're ultimately trying to own these companies outright at some point i.e. expect a bid for FBDU sometime in the future.

[konkel] 20/6/2007 14:08

I think the Dobbies takeover has focussed attention for two reasons: firstly garden centres and the like have become very fashionable and are prized assets. Gardening Direct isn't the same, obviously, but nonetheless is in a similar space. Also, Tom Hunter and his pals are in the bidding for Dobbies and are also the major shareholder in FBDU (they paid 312.5p for their 29% stake as I remember) so the natural conclusion is that they're ultimately trying to own these companies outright at some point i.e. expect a bid for FBDU sometime in the future.

[beaufort1] 20/6/2007 09:20

Anyone know why the tick up this am?