Gourmet Holdings Share Discussion Threads

[g.j.a] 06/10/2005 11:29

Good figures - bodes well. Will this encourage some more buys?

[bogeskey] 19/9/2005 22:19

Good numbers and 3 or 4 new outlets(pub/restaurants) to come, should stir things up nicely.

[spooky] 19/9/2005 10:11

Any thoughts on whether these will have a run into the numbers ?

[speedieruk] 16/9/2005 12:22

Ok Cambium, I'll just whisper that I've bought a few of these today.

Sshhh! Mum's the word :-)

[g.j.a] 31/8/2005 20:08

Nearly 5 months and not a word on here!

[wowy] 06/4/2005 18:22

I think we are 6 to 12 months early on this one. I can see + or - 20% from here untill the news flow gives a good direction. Happy holding (a lot) and waiting for the story to unfold.

[g.j.a] 05/4/2005 15:47

Now that price has slipped back a bit looking to possibly add to my investment ... it looks a positive future

[bogeskey] 17/3/2005 09:58

The 3 acquisitions should be opened for business in April and should increase turnover by 30% for next year. As admin costs are now more or less fixed, overall the extra to bottom line should be proportionally greater. With more to come this company is only just starting to get into gear. Should be rewarding from here on in. dyor.

[spooky] 10/3/2005 07:55

I'm not sure these figures add much to the story in themselves but i am led to believe there are big plans for the future and they definitely have the management in place to execute.

[g.j.a] 10/3/2005 07:40

These figures bode well. Positive and encouraging. Great stuff!

[sheeneqa] 07/3/2005 13:19

How would you define a "sensei?"

This is a question I suspect almost all of us involved with the budo, or with any of the traditional Japanese arts for that matter, have struggled with. I must admit that I have directed it myself, more than once, to a person I was interviewing, particularly those more advanced exponents of martial arts, or flower arranging, or the tea ceremony. I have found that the answers that are given are an excellent way to get a measure of the person.

Perhaps as I tackle the subject here, you will gain some insight into me as well. At any rate, I would like to offer some thoughts on what it is that makes a teacher of the budo, the Japanese martial Ways. I also offer some suggestions too, on how to recognize one when you've found him or her. We should begin by noting what some of you may already know, and that is the Japanese definition of the term sensei. You have probably read elsewhere that "sensei" is comprised of two kanji or written characters, borrowed by Japan from ancient China. Sen means literally, "before" or "preceding." Sei is the character that means "life. "The life that came before," then, is a poetic way to denote someone who has walked along the Way before you and who may now show you the path as well.

However, things in Japan, particularly linguistic things, are rarely as simple as they may first appear. . . If you go to Japan or spend much time around Japanese speakers, you will hear the word "sensei" used frequently. It is used as a form of address for all teachers, public schoolteachers as well as professors at universities. The woman who teaches a kiddie gymnastics programme is called sensei, as is the president of a medical college.

Furthermore, people who are experienced in any of the arts, from pottery to kabuki theater to modem poetry are all referred to as sensei. Medical doctors are called sensei. So are Ph.D.s. As you should be beginning to see, sensei can mean a teacher in the literal sense of the word but it is also used as a title of respect. (In current Japanese slang, in fact, the word sensei is also used sarcastically. A young man-about-town will ask his friend, "Well, sensei, how did you do with the girls last night?" You ought to know right now too, that the word sensei is virtually the only title used for any martial arts teacher. This will simply crush a great many dai-soke, shihan, fuku-shidoin, and the holders of innumerable other fanciful titles in this country, but none of those terms are used in everyday parlance in the training hall in Japan. All teachers, from the most ordinary to the most renowned, are referred to as sensei, period.)

So we are left without much help in defining the sensei, not if we depend upon a literal translation of the word from Japanese, nor if we try to define it as it is actually used in Japan. The problem thus remains. Who is a sensei? How do you know when you become one, and most importantly, how do you recognize one when you set out to find him?

Well, many dojo in the West have attempted to circumvent the whole matter. Within the training structure of their schools, anyone who leads a class is called sensei. There is really nothing wrong with this. As we have just noted, the Japanese themselves play rather fast and loose with the term. But somehow, such a conclusion is not at all satisfactory. We still want a clearer definition. We want to know if the word implies merely technical skill or if the sensei must be, as well, a person of outstanding moral character.

My own thinking is that a sensei is very much like another kind of person who is responsible for important matters. A person who, like the sensei seems to be from another age, a person of rare and unique gifts. The sensei, it seems to me, is very much like a vintner. A vintner is the person who produces wine. He is the one who is responsible for it, from the planting of the grape vines, all the way until the raw wine is poured into casks to age. The vintner is the talented individual who can look at a particular hillside or a handful of soil and can tell you which kinds of grapes will grow best there, what kind of yield you can expect. He knows when the grapes need to be pruned. He makes vital decisions throughout the growing season, to fertilize, to spray for bugs. He must decide when to pick them in the fall, to wait for a few more days to let them fully ripen or to pick now and beat out the rain that can adversely affect the whole harvest.

[cockneyrebel] 07/3/2005 12:54

You're worrying me now Broker 200 :-)

Results Thursday and no takers (yet!). JCR was a bit slow last week - perhaps a big rush in this one before Thursday?

Lets seem - looks potentially exciting to me.

CR

[cockneyrebel] 05/3/2005 21:25

I bet Andrew Guy is looking forward to Thursday's results too:



RNS Number:0116E
Gourmet Holdings PLC
13 October 2004
Date: 13 October 2004
Contacts:
Gareth Lloyd Jones, Chief Executive Tel: [phone]
Gourmet Holdings plc
John Bick/Trevor Phillips, Holborn Tel: [phone]
Gourmet Holdings plc
Director Purchases
The Company was informed today that Andrew Guy, a Director of Gourmet Holdings
plc, purchased 275,000 ordinary shares on 12 October 2004, at a price of 11.0
pence per share.
He now has a beneficial interest in a total of 1,496,138 ordinary shares,
representing 1.90% of the issued share capital of the Company.

[bogeskey] 03/3/2005 08:37

look forward to it!

[cockneyrebel] 03/3/2005 08:16

RNS Number:2851J
Gourmet Holdings PLC
03 March 2005
3 March 2005
Gourmet Holdings plc
("the Company")
Notification of Interim Results
Gourmet Holdings plc (AIM: GRM) owns the Richoux and The Bel and the Dragon
restaurant brands.
The Company will be announcing interim results for the 28 week period ended 9
January 2005 on Thursday 10th March 05.

[cockneyrebel] 28/2/2005 11:26

127k buy moved the price this am I think

CR

[cockneyrebel] 28/2/2005 10:33

Moving back up after the profit takers leapt - results in around 15 working days

Should be good imo.

CR

[bogeskey] 26/2/2005 13:41

we should have interims this week with news of 2 or 3 new sites to open before long,

[g.j.a] 11/2/2005 19:00

This is looking really promising......... enjoying this one to the full!

[teapreacher] 11/2/2005 14:39

volatile today.

[blowson2000] 11/2/2005 11:22

17p to buy. im glad im in already.20p+ after theyre next results.

[cockneyrebel] 11/2/2005 10:52

through the previous high of 16p - clear blue sky now

CR

[bogeskey] 10/2/2005 11:13

20p on the cards within a month imho.
b.