Bought a few of these yesterday on the back of an excelent AGM report. The owner of CPH is the chap who was behind the success of Pizza Express so I would tend to think he knows what he is doing.

The company as already bought two high street brand names and is looking for a third. Highly speculative of course but I tend to think with this guys track record the reward will outweigh the risk.

Heres the AGM statement....................

The Clapham House Group PLC
07 September 2004



The Clapham House Group PLC
7 September 2004


AGM Statement


At today's Annual General Meeting, David Page, Chairman of The Clapham House
Group PLC ('the Company' or 'Clapham House'), will make the following comments
on the Company's trading and prospects :


'Since their respective acquisitions, The Real Greek and The Bombay Bicycle Club
have been successfully integrated into Clapham House and both businesses are
currently trading ahead of our expectations.


The Real Greek

A new Real Greek Souvlaki & Bar opened in a premium location on London's South
Bank in the first week of July 2004 and has traded excellently in its initial
weeks. Encouraged by this success, we are currently negotiating on a number of
further properties for The Real Greek.


The Bombay Bicycle Club

The Bombay Bicycle Club restaurant and delivery kitchens have performed well
since their acquisition in April 2004. A new Bombay Bicycle Club restaurant is
under construction in Hampstead and will open in the autumn. Four further
properties are currently under offer and with lawyers.


Corporate Developments

We are also negotiating on several further potential acquisitions. We are
confident that one of these will become the Company's third platform format,
comfortably inside the two years we set ourselves for completing our three
initial acquisitions at the time of the Company's admission to AIM.


Negotiations to acquire property packages are also ongoing with a number of
parties, although we have made it clear in these discussions that we are not
prepared to pay uneconomic prices for packages of sites.


Outlook

As a Board we are delighted with the nature and speed of progress made to date
in achieving the Company's strategic aim of building a group of high growth
restaurant and delivery formats.'


Enquiries :


The Clapham House Group PLC
David Page, Executive Chairman 07836 346934
Paul Campbell, Chief Executive 07785 228299


Noble & Company Limited
John Llewellyn-Lloyd 020 7763 2200


Gainsborough Communications
Andy Cornelius 020 7841 1023
Julian Walker 020 7841 1021





Note to Editors

Clapham House's aim is to exploit acquisition opportunities within the UK
restaurant sector. The Company's strategy is to create value for shareholders
through acquiring and actively developing a small number of quality, branded
restaurant formats predominantly in and around the M25 region for expansion into
a high growth restaurant group. The Company successfully floated on AIM on 10
November 2003 and is backed by a number of leading City institutions and with
significant investment from the founding management team.






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


Please DYOR.

cheers Gf.

You've totally lost the plot GF.

Crazy Women Squelched, cant see what she is posting but can report that she used to post under a diifferent name and was barred from the site. If I was you Id squelch her aswell. Wont belong before she upsets someone else and gets her marching orders again.

I didn't post here using a different name and get barred. Yet another lie GF. I have no desire to keep posting on this forum. The only reason I posted here in the first place was to correct your inaccurate personal remarks about me. I would be grateful if you would desist.

Crazy Woman LOL I cant see what you are posting (your squelched), but just an update for your sake, I have in fact been in communication with Alan Green this morning and he as indeed agreed to remove the offensive thread. I have also asked him to keep a close watch on your malicious and slanderous postings refering to people that you feel have alias.

MY SINCERE APPOLOGIES TO ANYONE TUNING IN HERE WHO WANTED TO SEE A POSTING ON CPH.

I also apologise to anyone who wanted to read a posting about CPH but if GF had restricted himself to posting about this share in the first place you wouldn't have had this problem. Sorry folks but I really object to GF posting lies about me on a public forum. Hopefully that's the end of it.

Carry on posting Crazywoman I cant see what you are saying

Group Stratergy And Aims.

The Clapham House Group PLC

The Clapham House Group successfully floated on AIM on 10 November 2003, backed by a number of leading City institutions and with a significant investment from the founding management team. The companys business plan is to create value through acquiring and actively developing a small number of restaurant formats that are currently trading profitably within and around the M25 region.

The companys Executive Directors, David Page and Paul Campbell, each have proven track records of developing and building successful and profitable restaurant and leisure concepts across the UK and were until recently Directors of PizzaExpress Plc, the successful and highly profitable restaurant group with more than 300 restaurants in the UK and internationally.

The UK eating out market is still growing and, with the exception of the traditional pizza/pasta sector, the UK market is generally fragmented. Clapham House will therefore favour sectors of the restaurant market that are relatively unconsolidated and will apply the following investment criteria in assessing potential acquisitions:

They should be cash generative and profitable
They should have a simple operational format
Typically they should have no more than 10 existing units
They should have low capital expenditure requirements
They should have the capability for an eventual national roll out of at least 50 restaurants.

Owners or advisors of businesses that meet these criteria can contact the company in confidence and an initial exploratory meeting will be held.

As Clapham House expands the estates of the concepts it acquires, it will look for operational synergies and certain support functions will be shared. The company is also very interested in exploiting opportunities for brand expansion into retail outlets, such as supermarkets.

cheers GF

The Clapham House Group PLC
07 September 2004



The Clapham House Group PLC
7 September 2004


AGM Statement


At today's Annual General Meeting, David Page, Chairman of The Clapham House
Group PLC ('the Company' or 'Clapham House'), will make the following comments
on the Company's trading and prospects :


'Since their respective acquisitions, The Real Greek and The Bombay Bicycle Club
have been successfully integrated into Clapham House and both businesses are
currently trading ahead of our expectations.


The Real Greek

A new Real Greek Souvlaki & Bar opened in a premium location on London's South
Bank in the first week of July 2004 and has traded excellently in its initial
weeks. Encouraged by this success, we are currently negotiating on a number of
further properties for The Real Greek.


The Bombay Bicycle Club

The Bombay Bicycle Club restaurant and delivery kitchens have performed well
since their acquisition in April 2004. A new Bombay Bicycle Club restaurant is
under construction in Hampstead and will open in the autumn. Four further
properties are currently under offer and with lawyers.


Corporate Developments

We are also negotiating on several further potential acquisitions. We are
confident that one of these will become the Company's third platform format,
comfortably inside the two years we set ourselves for completing our three
initial acquisitions at the time of the Company's admission to AIM.


Negotiations to acquire property packages are also ongoing with a number of
parties, although we have made it clear in these discussions that we are not
prepared to pay uneconomic prices for packages of sites.


Outlook

As a Board we are delighted with the nature and speed of progress made to date
in achieving the Company's strategic aim of building a group of high growth
restaurant and delivery formats.'


Enquiries :


The Clapham House Group PLC
David Page, Executive Chairman 07836 346934
Paul Campbell, Chief Executive 07785 228299


Noble & Company Limited
John Llewellyn-Lloyd 020 7763 2200

cheers GF.

ttt

Thought I'd revive this one. I hadn't searched for it before on the BB and I ain't no fundie. ;-))

I like charts. I entered back in March at the pullback and stopped out half on the fall below 4 quid about a month ago. Filled back up first thing this morning and looking for another decent run.

snap Al... so did I:-)

She seems to have a very predictable pattern of movement, Jules. More than a couple of red candles and it's out to await the pullback. Importantly, Friday jumped up on good volume and whenever that's happened it's tended to go on a good run. Same again today.

Oh, decent PEG too - for the fundies! ;-0

Had her in shares, SIPP and CFD last time. Lovely profit and hoping for the same again. ;-))

yes.. that's what I had noticed too;-))

AL, nice mark up at the open;-)

Clapham House FY pretax surges; says extremely positive on prospects
AFX


LONDON (Thomson Financial) - The Clapham House Group PLC posted sharply higher full-year revenues and pretax profit on continuing organic growth and

the acquisition of Urban Dining PLC in May last year.

Pretax profits for the year to April 1 came in at 1.5 mln stg from a restated 0.3 mln last year. Turnover rose to 45.9 mln stg from 17.3 mln. No final dividend was proposed.

The restaurant group also said it remains extremely positive regarding the prospects for its formats, especially in the UK casual dining market and that its recent openings are performing in line with expectations.

Clapham House said it has a strong property pipeline built for openings in 2007/08 and is already focussing on the blueprint for 2008/09. It is currently building at five locations and expects to remain 'fully on course' with this year's openings.

The conversion of its Tootsies restaurants into GBK format is also progressing well, the company said.

That's why. ;-))

We might have got lucky again. LOL

Nice results AL:-)

Great results and expansion to continue at a pace. More sustained gains to come in my opinion. 7 contracts signed and more in the pipeline, fast roll-out across the UK. Excellent format of GBK.

Nice day once more. ;-))

Good write up on pg 24 of the FT today (plus a photo!) and a few buy recs coming in, varying from 430p up to 500p.

Out for a nice profit today. ;-))