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| Share Name | Share Symbol | Market | Stock Type |
|---|---|---|---|
| Topps Tiles Plc | TPT | London | Ordinary Share |
| Price Change | Price Change % | Share Price | Last Trade
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| 0.60 | 1.67% | 36.60 | 16:35:23 |
| Open Price | Low Price | High Price | Close Price | Previous Close |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 37.40 | 37.40 | 37.40 | 36.60 | 36.00 |
| Industry Sector |
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| GENERAL RETAILERS |
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Posted at 02/12/2024 09:36 by clocktower When I read what an investor from Australia says I think of Home Depot for some reason. |
Posted at 01/12/2024 19:05 by master rsi "The Sunday Times: The largest shareholder in Topps Tiles is calling for the board to overhaul its senior management and strategy after what it characterised as a series of ‘costly blunders’."--------------- Investor on warpath over ‘costly blunders’ at Topps Tiles- December 01 2024, , The Sunday Times The retailer’s largest shareholder has called for an overhaul of senior management and strategy The Austrian investor MS Galleon claimed there had been a “complete failure” to adapt to the changing retail landscape The largest shareholder in Topps Tiles is calling for the board to overhaul its senior management and strategy after what it characterised as a series of “costly blunders”. Piotr Lipko, managing director of the Austrian investor MS Galleon, wrote to Topps Tiles’ chairman Paul Forman last week claiming that management had shown a “complete failure” to adapt to the changing retail landscape, citing its comparatively small online business. MS Galleon, which holds a 29.9 per cent stake in Topps Tiles, also blasted the company’s acquisition of CTD Tiles, which it described as “unequivocally irrational” and “highly detrimental” to the interests of the company. Paul Forman is chairman of Topps Tiles Lipko told Forman he had “grown frustrated” by his continued lack of engagement. Topps Tiles said it engaged regularly with all Sam Chambers The Austrian investor MS Galleon claimed there had been a “complete failure” to adapt to the changing retail landscape |
Posted at 01/12/2024 15:15 by tenapen I haven't read the article in the ST but it has been tough for the trades. After so many years of rising revenue and profits, Once the slowdown comes, which it always does! directors start to take chances to protect their bonuses and keep investors happy. ..... But the CTD buyout didn't make sense, even for a thick'o like me. |
Posted at 01/12/2024 14:23 by pugugly Sunday Times. Investor on warpath over ‘costly blunders’ at Topps TilesThe retailer’s largest shareholder has called for an overhaul of senior management and strategy |
Posted at 24/11/2024 12:08 by tenapen Investor Meets - website.TOPPS TILES PLC Full Year Results 28th Nov 2024 at 9:00am GMT |
Posted at 13/11/2024 11:27 by tenapen TPT are talking to Investor Meets - 28th November at 9am - it will be interesting. |
Posted at 29/9/2024 12:27 by tenapen You big girl rsiThat really upsets me So funny your quoting from that font of all knowledge - proactive investor hahaha What next the Sun paper :-) |
Posted at 02/9/2024 10:36 by master rsi I found a main reason for the good performance today, but one has to be ahead of the pack when I selected the stock to go better looking ahead....Proactive Investors - UK companies set for ‘protracted A resilient job market, ongoing wage growth, subsiding inflation and a rate cut since have now all laid the groundwork for better times ahead, according to Peel Hunt. This has coincided with a return of a “stable” political environment, following the likes of Brexit, since Britain elected a new Labour government in July, analysts added. The investment bank highlighted a string of companies from a range of sectors likely to benefit from the improving economic picture, including NatWest Group PLC (LON:NWG), Premier Inn owner Whitbread PLC (LON:WTB) and Jet2 PLC (LON:JET2). This also stretched to retailers, such as DFS Furniture PLC (LON:DFSD) and Topps Tiles PLC (LON:TPT) |
Posted at 25/5/2023 16:55 by makinbuks Caught up with the results presentation today, surprised no one asked a question about the hostile investor |
Posted at 21/12/2022 10:35 by wad collector XD Tomorrow 2.6p which of course is 5% of current share price ; worth having!From Bearbull on IC last week; When activist shareholders go to war with a target company there is usually entertainment to be had (though probably not for the directors of the target) and often money to be made for investors. However, it may be a first when the activist says to the target, 'buy more of our products or else the chairman gets it in the neck'. In a nutshell – and with just a little caricature – that is what’s happening at tiles retailer Topps Tiles (TPT). It faces a call to sack its chairman, appoint two of the activist’s nominees to the board and, in effect, to buy lots and lots more stuff from a Polish bathroom-equipment maker that the activist just happens to own. The activist is MS Galleon, a Vienna-based investor that seems to focus on Polish companies, and which has built a stake in Topps fractionally short of the 30 per cent threshold that would trigger a mandatory bid. Galleon began building its stake in Topps in 2020. During 2021 – by which time its holding had risen to 20 per cent – Galleon suggested that the proportion of inventory Topps sourced from Cersanit, the Polish bathrooms specialist, should be about the same as its stake in Topps. That was an interesting – and even challenging – symmetry since, at that time, Topps sourced just 0.5 per cent of its stock from Cersanit, which in the 2020-21 financial year would have had a retail value of about £1mn. Even to raise that proportion to 20 per cent would be the equivalent of buying about £46mnn-worth of goods – great for the Polish end of the deal, not necessarily so good for the UK end. Indeed, Topps’ bosses point out that the company’s internal rules forbid it from sourcing more than 10 per cent of inventories from one supplier – a sensible precaution. It adds that the activist’s proposals present a clear conflict of interest. On the one hand, the activist wants its Polish subsidiary to be a major supplier to Topps; on the other, if the activist gets its own people on Topps’ board, it would not be possible for them to act in the best interests of all shareholders. Maybe it’s not that simple. It is permissible for a company’s directors to have conflicting interests so long as that is made clear and so long as it does not influence the company’s decision-making. Yet achieving that in practice is harder than in theory, especially in this case where the activist’s equity stake is so influential and its demands so obviously self-interested. All that said, however, Galleon, the activist, has a point. All has not been well at Topps for some years and the decline – if decline it is – coincides quite neatly with the tenure of Topps’ chairman, Darren Shapland. Since he took the chair in February 2015, Topps' shares have lost 60 per cent of their value and have dropped 63 per cent relative to the FTSE All-Share index. True, much has happened in the intervening years that has been bad for retailers, particularly those with a limited online presence, such as Topps; and Shapland has never held an executive position at Topps. Even so, more influence might have been expected from a chairman whose CV in retailing was as impressive as Shapland’s. It peaked when he was finance director at J Sainsbury (SBRY) in the 2000s and subsequently included a short spell as chief executive of Lord Phil Harris’s Carpetland where he had earlier been the finance director. Galleon seems keen to contrast Topps’ performance and share rating with Victorian Plumbing (VIC). Topps appears to come off second best. However, the comparison isn’t necessarily fair. Both companies make a living selling tiles and related stuff, but Victorian Plumbing is exclusively an online retailer while Topps is mostly the bricks-and-mortar variety. Consequently, it is to be expected that Topps’ measures of profitability and efficiency would be inferior since the online retailer, assuming it has built up a critical mass of sales, can happily run on lower overheads. No matter. When shares in Topps were most recently in the Bearbull Income Portfolio (they were sold at 49p in mid-2020 as Covid bit and the dividend was axed) there was no shortage of value in relation to their price. I suspect it is much the same today, except the dividend has been restored; at the current 51p share price it yields 7.1 per cent, although that implies Topps is over-distributing. Even so, ahead of the fun and games at January’s annual meeting, Topps' shares may well be worth a punt, especially as the 2.6p final dividend is in the price until 22 December. |
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