Orbis Share Discussion Threads

[rhiannon] 19/9/2002 15:23

Getting BLUE lines across my screen on nearly ALL my stocks at the minute. IT MUST BE THE GLASSES.WDIK

[rhiannon] 19/9/2002 15:20

here we go!!!!!!WDIK

[rhiannon] 19/9/2002 15:11

MM buying WDIK

[rhiannon] 17/9/2002 19:30

Half the stock exchange is on the edge of extinction IF you believe AL you read on these BBs. WDIK

[hillbrown] 17/9/2002 19:11

rhiannon. very cryptic. what do you know? My guess is nix.

tpsev. A big buy. £8,750.oo quidsworth.

This share is on the edge of extinction......
Has the same feel as FSH, now resting in peace, another old
Ian Quinlan company.

[tpsev] 17/9/2002 18:11

500000 trade late on ? will wait and see

[rhiannon] 17/9/2002 14:57

WATCH . WDIK

[hi5] 16/9/2002 16:44

I hear that Orbis have lost some key contracts that will hit their income hard. The likes of Leeds City Council, Salford City Council and various Housing associations.

[dragonhorse] 16/9/2002 08:54

Drowning in debt, and not a pretty sight. The shares look cheap but IMO can be considered worthless too at the moment.

Add up all of Orbis's profits since 1998(ignoring the Big losses)and they are still shy of 2002 interest charge of £7,382,000 as is 2002's operating profit of £3,655,000. That's before Amortisation of £4,551,000. Shucks!

[hillbrown] 05/9/2002 23:45

very speculative buy
sensible sell

[latifs100] 05/9/2002 23:39

buy or sell?

[pictureframe] 05/9/2002 23:11

RNS Number:8017A
Orbis PLC
05 September 2002


Date: 5 September 2002


Contact: John Leach, Chairman
Orbis PLC 01895 465 500

David Bick
Holborn Public Relations 020 7929 5599
[e-mail]


ORBIS PLC

Annual General Meeting

Extract from the Chairman's Statement


As we reported in the annual report and accounts, a number of issues led to the
extremely disappointing results for the year ended 31 March 2002. We indicated
that recovery to acceptable levels of operating profit will be slow, but the
group is continuing to make progress in a number of areas.

The main problems arose in the UK void property protection business, where
pricing pressures and operational inefficiencies resulted in dramatically
reduced profit. New organisational structures and administration efficiencies
have been implemented since April 2002. These are already improving cash flow,
though they are yet to have any significant effect on operating profit. Local
competition continues to influence pricing and we are continuing to seek
additional operating efficiencies.

The development of sales of the OASIS alarm for the commercial market and export
has been disappointing and support for this has therefore been significantly cut
back.

Europe continues to perform strongly across all the regions. Although there was
a relatively slow start to the year in France growth is now continuing, and both
Northern Europe (Germany and Holland) and Poland are expanding.

Fernlee has experienced a further period of considerable growth in sales during
the first four months of the financial year and we believe that this will
continue. The costs of the additional expansion now required to support the
business will impact profits and cash generation in the short term, but there
are significant opportunities for the future.

Sales of Orbis Monitoring Services' Cybertrak solution have continued to be
erratic. As reported in June 2002, the board is currently reviewing strategic
options for the business.

Current trading and prospects

Overall the group has performed in line with expectations during the first
months of the current financial year. There is still a considerable amount of
work to undertake to restore the group to an acceptable level of profitability,
but the first steps have been taken and there are opportunities for further
development in the future.

- - - - -

[rhiannon] 29/8/2002 20:00

Can we have somebuying activety on OBS please. Im here sitting on a big Ttrade. (GRIN) Silly as it seems at the minute with everything and everybody negative. One day this will see a pound. NO RAMP. (grin) wdik

[rhiannon] 27/8/2002 07:07

AGM soon, Sept 5th i think.WDIK.

[tony14] 27/8/2002 06:53

RNS Number:3787A
Orbis PLC
27 August 2002

Date: 27 August 2002


Contact: John Leach, Chairman
Orbis PLC 01895 465500

David Bick
Holborn 020 7929 5599


ORBIS PLC



APPOINTMENT OF GROUP CHIEF EXECUTIVE





Orbis PLC ("Orbis") announces that Michael Holmes has been appointed as Group
Chief Executive and will join the Company on 6 September, replacing. Jonathan
Horton, who had taken on the role as interim Group Chief Executive pending this
appointment.



Michael Holmes was until 2001 Chief Executive of Chesterton International and
prior to this a Regional Managing Director at Rentokil Group. Both roles
involved significant experience in the provision of services to the owners and
occupiers of property which is key to the Orbis business.



Commenting on the appointment, John Leach, Chairman, said:



"The board extends its thanks to Jonathan for the job he has done since April in
an interim capacity.



"The search for the permanent appointee has been extensive and I am confident
that the board has identified an excellent candidate in terms of industry sector
experience and management track record."





- ENDS --





There is no relevant information to be disclosed in respect of the requirements
of paras 6.F.2 (b) to 6.F.2 (g) of the UKLA Listing Rules








This information is provided by RNS
The company news service from the London Stock Exchange

END

[hillbrown] 24/8/2002 23:38

Well, nobody. Its 12% below the bid. Was it a sell?
If so its quite a slug for one mm to take on and could
be construed as positive.

Or was it a mm selling at an offer price that someone who knows
something that we dont was prepared to pay for a lge slug? Also positive.

Maybe none of the above. Maybe someone seeing better value to come
post the Sept 11 2002 softening/meltdown somewhere else. Negative.

[pictureframe] 23/8/2002 23:59

whats going on here then ?

[dragonhorse] 23/8/2002 19:09

4.7 million shares kicked out of bed @ 2.2p today.
Why would anyone want to offer more than that for the shares now ?

[rhiannon] 23/8/2002 15:29

HALF A MILLION. MM BUY. WDIK

[zengas] 23/8/2002 13:47

Major Shareholders (22 Aug 02): 174.82m 10p Ords - Merrill Lynch Inv Mgrs Ltd 29.17%(dup), Friends Ivory & Sime PLC 5.20%, A Riches 5.15%, Eaglet Inv Trust PLC 4.97%, BBC Pension Trust Ltd 4.63%(dup), Mercury Grosvenor Trust 4.26%(dup), J Hambro Cap Mgmt 3.45%, Stewart Bowie 3.30%, Prudential 3.14%, Other Dirs 0.81%.

[hari] 23/8/2002 13:02

A re you sure??...why positive..today of all days on the day of a meeting with some news expected in a few days and a big seller comes out. It could be negative news. Big buyers or sellers usually know what's happening..they're already out and samll suckers like you and me and just praying there is good news on the way. Sorry for being pessimitic but who would selling now with insider info is rife.

[rhiannon] 23/8/2002 12:52

Board meeting today ,see iii bb. Sounds positive. WDIK

[younasm] 23/8/2002 12:36

Looks like we'll see 2p soon......why though ? Anyone closer to their business ?

[rhiannon] 23/8/2002 12:35

ORBIS as banks backing, director buying. Fly in the ointment is institutional selling to buy something else cheap elsewhere.IF NO MORE BIG SELLS, ITS VERY CHEAP AT THE MINUTE.WDIK

[rhiannon] 23/8/2002 12:17

Big SELL appeared now from earlier. MM BUYS now. WDIK.