Marston's Share Discussion Threads

[chinese investor] 23/1/2018 08:49

Disappointing Trading Update !

[redartbmud] 23/1/2018 08:48

It only has to reach 60p to get back to the price of the last rights issue.
Maybe this is the last rights:-(

[11_percent] 23/1/2018 08:47

Bouncing???

[11_percent] 23/1/2018 08:39

Still tanking....time to by a few for the bounce.

[11_percent] 23/1/2018 08:37

Sp tanking, and there is a gap.

[redartbmud] 23/1/2018 08:31

Yes i will be there.
At least it is at Molyneaux and the food will be almost edible.
I wasn't keen on the two balls of some indescribable balls floating in a grey sea a couple of years ago.
Very tight with what they provide, unlike executive remuneration and the debt mountain.
It will be full to brimming with the spit and sawdust brigade asking for favourite treatment for their own local.
Wouldn't bother except that I have been pressed as chauffeur for an old friend.

Share price reaction to the statement says it all.

Yawn....

[the deacon] 23/1/2018 08:22

Not too shabby on the whole. Happy to continue to add.

[richie1218] 22/1/2018 19:13

AGM tomorrow - anyone attending?

[septimus quaid] 20/1/2018 21:41

Not exactly pennies, although the deficit seems to be all over the place:

30/09/17
Pensions
The deficit on our final salary scheme was £5.4 million at 30 September 2017 which compares to the £34.0 million deficit at last year end. This movement is principally due to the fall in liabilities as a consequence of the increase in corporate bond yields.

01/10/16
Pensions
Our final salary pension scheme at the year end showed a deficit of £34.0 million before tax (2015: £15.0 million surplus). This position reflects the impact of deteriorating gilt yields on discount rate assumptions during the course of the last year.

[chinese investor] 20/1/2018 12:29

Pennies !

The final salary pension scheme has around 270 active members.

[septimus quaid] 20/1/2018 11:48

Anybody got the figures for MARS’ pension fund deficit (if any) at their fingertips?

[chinese investor] 15/1/2018 08:55

130p Soon !

[chinese investor] 10/1/2018 10:27

Dividend Cover 1.9 So No Worries !

[r ball] 09/1/2018 19:07

I agree once sentiment starts to change

[andplus] 05/1/2018 20:31

nah 165 soon all recovery signals and share price ready to fly

[chinese investor] 05/1/2018 13:13

3p to 120p !

[skinny] 05/1/2018 08:40

If you like charts, yesterday's shows a bullish engulfing candle.

[skinny] 05/1/2018 08:39

AGM on 23rd January.

[scobak] 04/1/2018 21:06

Investors Chronicle income tip of the year for 2018.

[chinese investor] 02/1/2018 08:41

Good Start !

[neilyb675] 26/12/2017 12:48

was packed out, very good food, lovely atmosphere, everyone paying £50 a head

[richie1218] 26/12/2017 10:04

Casual dining offsets pub closures to keep leisure venues stable

(ShareCast News) - The rise of casual dining has made up for pub closures to keep the number of drinking venues steady despite tough market conditions.
There were 122,783 licensed premises in the UK in September a rise of less than 0.1% from a year earlier. The number of drink-led pubs fell 2.3%, continuing a long-term trend. But the number of restaurants rose by 1.6% to keep overall numbers stable.

The figures, the most recent compiled by CGA and Alix Partners, indicate a resilient performance by the licensed trade amid rising food prices, squeezed consumer budgets and uncertainty over Brexit. They also show the trade responding to changes in leisure habits as families spend more on eating out together.

Campaigners such as JD Wetherspoon founder Tim Martin have called for the government to ease taxation on pubs to help them compete with cheap supermarket prices. Wetherspoon has responded to changes in the market by serving a wider array of food, breakfast and upmarket coffee.

Marston's, the brewer and pub operator, has been converting its pubs into casual dining venues to tap into the trend for eating out on a budget. These pubs are included in the survey's wet-led pubs figures despite their emphasis on food.

Peter Martin, vice president of CGA, said the lines between pubs and restaurants were blurring, making categories less relevant and the overall number of premises more important.

"Food and drink is being leveraged together. Often a pub may look like it's food-led but the main sales are still from drinks. For the consumer it doesn't really matter whether it's a pub or a restaurant. They say 'It's somewhere I want to go.'"

Martin said restaurants and food-led pubs were benefiting from the so-called experience economy as consumers prioritise leisure such as eating out and weekends away over buying material goods. Growth of restaurants in the past year was led by entrepreneurial start-ups and medium sized operators looking to become big brands, the research found.

"The market isn't growing but overall it's still healthy because people are still going out to eat and drink in more straitened times," Martin said.

[chinese investor] 18/12/2017 08:12

120p Soon !