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August 2003

Investing in shares may lose you all or some of your money. Past performance is no indication of future performance. Some of the shares recommended here may be small company shares, which can be relatively illiquid and hard to trade and this makes such shares more risky than other investments.

The fact that he was a recent joiner made chief executive William Rollason’s decision easier when it came to eliminating  the weakest part of the group’s operations.  Together with results for the year to 30 April, he therefore announced the sale of its display marketing division DMG to Premier Direct (230p) for up to £4.1m. The debt-laden Premier is to pay £4.1m (£1m cash upfront, £2.8m in five stage payments until April 2005 plus 190,763 new shares). DMG made an operating loss of £3.8m  in the year but the headline reading was made worse by a stock write down of £7.0m and a whopping £33.4m non-cash provision for impairment of goodwill. This however is the end of the pain.   Following th ...

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With small companies there is an above average degree of risk compared to buying blue chips. Please be aware that we have not assessed the suitability of any of these investments for you. The newsletter simply states a personal view and diarises the editor’s investment decisions. Please speak to your stockbroker or other qualified individual to ascertain whether any of these companies mentioned would form useful additions to your own portfolios. Past performance is no indication of future success.

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