Why are we again at 10.5p bid?

It doesn't add up...

Good Results + Strong buying pre results + Christmas online buying soon = Price drop

Then again some companies that have debt for equity hanging in the balance, poor results and bankruptcy around the corner and they go up!

Why sell now at a loss?

Wont that be a kick in the teeth when we see 13.5p 14p again!

Best of luck all.

that's better !

Stuck my neck out and bBought again at 29 a little earlier. RTD board always down plays its results in comparison with other companies.

I think the following is good size increase in shareholding by Barclays. Also noted some director buying:

Retail Decisions PLC
07 April 2005


SCHEDULE 10

NOTIFICATION OF MAJOR INTERESTS IN SHARES


1. Name of company

RETAIL DECISIONS PLC

2. Name of shareholder having a major interest

BARCLAYS PLC

3. Please state whether notification indicates that it is in respect of holding
of the shareholder named in 2 above or in respect of a non-beneficial interest
or in the case of an individual holder if it is a holding of that person's
spouse or children under the age of 18

LEGAL ENTITY INTEREST

(A) BARCLAYS FUNDS LTD 953,694
(B) WOOLWICH UNIT TRUST MANAGERS LTD 5,192,409
(C) BARCLAYS CAPITAL SECURITIES LTD 4,576,678
(D) BARCLAYS GLOBAL INVESTORS LTD 8,278,801
(E) BARCLAYS GLOBAL INVESTORS LTD 7,664,811
(F) BARCLAYS LIFE ASSURANCE CO LTD 2,493,449
(G) GERRARD LTD 3,883

4. Name of the registered holder(s) and, if more than one holder, the number of
shares held by each of them

REGISTERED HOLDER A/C HOLDING

BANK OF IRELAND 4239749 703,272
BANK OF NEW YORK 214075 3,453,350
BANK OF NEW YORK 221428 484,629
BANK OF NEW YORK 392177 250,267
BANK OF NEW YORK 768198 36,364
BARCLAYS CAPITAL NOMINEES 4,576,678
CHASE NOMINEES LTD 16376 173,105
CHASE NOMINEES LTD 18243 37,461
CHASE NOMINEES LTD 19518 175,687
CHASE NOMINEES LTD 19519 1,563,372
CHASE NOMINEES LTD 21359 2,146,513
CHASE NOMINEES LTD 25772 488,694
CHASE NOMINEES LTD 28270 67,568
CHASE NOMINEES LTD 28270 732,343
CHASE NOMINEES LTD 31961 1,317,971
CITIBANK 6010782807 256,954
HSBC 845315 4,755
JP MORGAN (BGI CUSTODY) 16341 1,220,575
JP MORGAN (BGI CUSTODY) 16341 173,726
JP MORGAN (BGI CUSTODY) 16344 377,479
JP MORGAN (BGI CUSTODY) 16345 721,669
JP MORGAN (BGI CUSTODY) 16400 2,552,901
JP MORGAN (BGI CUSTODY) 16480 1,850,047
JP MORGAN (BGI CUSTODY) 16482 1,449,744
JP MORGAN (BGI CUSTODY) 16621 140,887
JP MORGAN (BGI CUSTODY) 16901 92,343
JP MORGAN (BGI CUSTODY) 18409 106,491
JP MORGAN (BGI CUSTODY) 19511 953,694
JP MORGAN (BGI CUSTODY) 27799 697,020
MIDLAND BANK (HSBC BANK PLC) 772823 1,852,682
NORTHERN TRUST SCO06 93,581
NORTHERN TRUST TNF01 264,173
R C GREIG NOMINEES LIMITED SA1 3,883
STATE STREET JD12 143,847

5. Number of shares / amount of stock acquired

NOT INFORMED

6. Percentage of issued class

NOT INFORMED

7. Number of shares / amount of stock disposed

NOT INFORMED

8. Percentage of issued class

NOT INFORMED

9. Class of security

ORDINARY 1P SHARES

10. Date of transaction

NOT INFORMED

11. Date company informed

06 APRIL 2005

12. Total holding following this notification

29,163,725

13. Total percentage holding of issued class following this notification

10.03%

14. Any additional information

As of 16 February 2005, the date of the last notification of a major interest in
shares by Barclays PLC, their undisclosable non-material holding was 21,204,306
representing 7.29% of the issue share capital.

15. Name of contact and telephone number for queries

RICHARD AMOS
(01483) 728700

16. Name and signature of authorised company official responsible for making
this notification

RICHARD AMOS
FINANCE DIRECTOR

Date of notification

07 APRIL 2005

The FSA does not give any express or implied warranty as to the accuracy of this
document or material and does not accept any liability for error or omission.
The FSA is not liable for any damages (including, without limitation, damages
for loss of business or loss of profits) arising in contract, tort or otherwise
from the use of or inability to use this document, or any material contained in
it, or from any action or decision taken as a result of using this document or
any such material.






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

Fundy - Surely "materially in excess" can only be announced when you're well into the accounting year - the last one came in autumn I seem to recall.

The merger looks to me like a cost-cutting exercise - because all of the consulting work is linked to fraud prevention then it makes sense to roll the two divisions into one and avoid paying two sets of back office staff for doing essentially the same jobs.

I agree that the statement is slightly "low key", however that seems to be a recent trend with companies not willing to blow their own trumpets too hard against a backdrop of potential global economic slowdown.

well done Fred long may you prosper..( ahem..my holiday fund is well short, maybe you can help since you are doing so well)...;o\

OG - not certain that you are correct. RTD will need to announce interim results at some point, covering the next 6 month accounting period. On this basis I would hope that by end of May they would make a further "materially in excess" announcement. Happy to be proved wrong on this one (timing, not content) as I am somewhat guessing.

pachandl - true that 6 months would give a good indication of progress for the rest of the year. All the same in the current economic environment RTD may find that contracts are harder to gain later in the year simply because customers don't want to fork out the cash (however even if this happens, at some point the customers are going to get hit so hard by fraud that they'll be back knocking on RTD's door lol!).

With year end at 31st Dec. RTD are right now only 1/3 of the way into the current financial year - far too early to give really bullish signs to the market, because if the rest of the year transpires not to be as good as they thought the share price will be really hammered at year end.

Best to be reasonably cautious at this stage and then at the half year stage give a slightly more upbeat statement, then towards the end of the year when it is already evident from the accounts that you are up on last year issue the "materially in excess" trading update.

My view is that RTD are continuing to do very well indeed and that we should expect to hear that they are beating expectations again later in the year.

OG - We are probably talking at cross-purposes. I assumed that RTD HAD to make a "materially ahead" announcement, in accordance with LSE rules, if they expected the interim results to be 10%+ ahead of expectations. I think you are saying that no announcement is necessary except in the run-up to the FULL YEAR results; ie, we might have to wait until December 2005. If you are confident that such is the case then I will accept that (subject to doing a bit of personal research!)

According to ShareScope Interims 9.10.2005. But I have been known to be wrong. Seems a long way away.

Cheers Fred - I suppose we cannot expect any positive announcement until about September it seems.

Looks like someone is mopping up all the sells again

Hopefully should see a nice T trade if the order is filled today.

Usually if someone sells 100k the price drops by .25p, and today we have had two very large sells which have been just been munched away

We have our order filled today...and a bigger order it was.

Not sure how to interpret the quantity

looks like a 1 million buy, could possibly be a 1.5m

maybe someone more knowledgeable can help out.

I feel more confident now than i have ever been with RTD, IMHO i feel a bid for the company is building up in the not too distant future.

Looks like 500K was sold from one MM to another then one insti bought 500K and another insti bought 1M in two lots of 500K.

Very healthy sign indeed - RTD could be about to rocket again very soon.

40p next stop (on route to 1+ that is)...

small guys keep selling
big guys keep buying

Another T trade today hopefully.

Onwards and upwards we march...slowly but surely

;-/...1.5ml bought not a flicker in sp!

today a handful sold......down 0.25p!!!!!!!!!...:-[

Patience Lad! Patience!

;o\

another 1ml+ bought not a flicker ah well!!!!!!!!!!

Douggie, are you calmer? Did you notice to-day some good sized buys with smaller sized sells. I guess tomorrow it will be up again. 8-)

Fred1new - you seem to have the right idea when it comes to holding RTD, Douggie would be better off trading them if he's so concerned about short-term moves.

Lastminute.com is being taken over by Travelocity (who are already one of RTD's many clients), Datacash are expanding internationally (who have a partnership with RTD) and everything else is business as usual (i.e. lots of profits coming in).

RTD's price has a habit of dipping after results and then picking up with a vengeance in the run up to the next ones - this time it will be running up to 40p+ IMHO.

There's been plenty of institutional buying still, interestingly at around the same time as all the Techinvest stop-losses kicked in - retail punters forcing themselves to sell a good share at a loss only to line the pockets of the big boys...ah well.

Stop losses are a great idea and essential when dealing with derivatives, however when investing in a relatively small high growth company I think that they can prove to be more of a hinderance than a help.

The May Department Stores

Sales rose 2.5% to $3.61 billion for 1st quarter

this is also a RTD customer

The way i see it right now
Quite a few people are panic selling thire shares, i kinda understand the reason why...no-one like to lose any of their profits.

But look at the bigger picture, RTD is a growth company and a money making one too.

IMHO...RTD will be priced in the mid 40's later this year, thats if it is not taken over before then.

I for one ,can handle all the sells as long as someone is snapping them up and slowly but surely, day by day someone is/are...

Dont mind if it does drop a bit more as i will top up big time..., but personally can't see it going below 28p

Also look out for a RNS in the coming days with announcement of more stakebuilding in RTD.

Just relax...sit back...and enjoy the ride..

Good luck

Folks - I've just started a new thread for Mediwatch, because the old one was hugely outdated and the original poster appears to be long gone. It looks as though the RTD thread is suffering from the same problems.

Let me know if you want me to create a new thread, so that we can at least see some charts for a change.