I have been hearing a number of bullish comments on this company. The company distributes vending machines all over the country that give out cash, mobile top ups etc.. and have around 400 machines. They recently had a fund raising which was succesful and will be reporting on Friday. The good news is that they plan to go into e-commerce and have already signed a deal with Alcatel. So in the future if you run out of cash a quick call on your mobile enter your security pin and you will have purchasing power. Does anyone have more info on this company?

price rise due to a buy note circular by the house broker

hello sane, im still holding any more news ?

a friend will be speaking to company over in the us. may have news tomorrow

hi guy im into this share and any tips would be most helpfull

Noticed this has shown a gradual rise over March. Up about 10 - 15% overall & good volumes. Any views or news?

they did report a possibility of running out of cash depending on timing of contracts, if they have got over this obstacle then we should see 7-8p again

Has risen 20% since Monday & doing well - will check out & see if I can find any news

This is up over 13% today now despite one large sell which outweighs all other buys. Seems to be no news anywhere but 25%+ in a week seems odd - any news appreciated?

Interesting article in Saturday Daily Express about BT installing vending machines into phone kiosks - maybe good for Selecta and Vianet

Up another 3 - 4% early this morning again today......

my broker asked the MM and was told the a large stock overhang has been cleared by a big buyer.

Now we know why. 5 year deal signed with mars.

Vianet Group PLC
15 March 2005

Vianet Group PLC

Vianet and Mars Electronics International Partner for Telemetry Solutions, first
volume order placed

Vianet has today signed a five year Value Added Reseller Agreement with Mars
Electronics International ('MEI'), a part of Mars Incorporated, and one of the
world's largest manufacturers of electronic coin changers, bill acceptors,
cashless payment systems and other unattended transaction systems. MEI has
placed an initial order for 5,000 viTel audit devices, with a contracted minimum
of 3,000 units, which will be installed over the next 24 months in MEI's
customer base.

The Agreement encompasses all countries across Europe and appoints Vianet as the
exclusive provider of vending audit devices, which enable electronic transfer of
vending meter readings. Vianet's viTel Audit device will greatly increase
operator efficiency, enhance data accuracy, and increase profitability.
Furthermore the Agreement appoints Vianet as the primary supplier of vending
telemetry services to the MEI group of companies and MEI EASITRAX customers. MEI
are targeted to supply other Mars subsidiary companies as part of the Agreement.

The partnership integrates both Vianet's viTel data collection units (hardware)
and Vianet's vOpen Internet based vending management system with MEI's EASITRAX
system. This system, accessed by a mobile phone connection to a local Internet
Service Provider, is designed to manage customers' vending businesses more
effectively, provide efficiencies through stock and cash management and collect
and analyse data to help identify product marketing opportunities. The
combination of the vOpen Internet based system and MEI EASITRAX provides the
vending owner unparalleled flexibility for data gathering and analysis. The
vOpen management system is hosted by Vianet's partner, Alcatel.

For Vianet Ian Orrock, Chairman and CEO, said:

'Vianet's exclusive agreement with MEI represents a definitive endorsement, from
a global brand, of the performance and cost-benefits from our vOpen system.

I am delighted to be partnering with MEI and the potential opportunities this
brings to the Group across Europe.

For MEI, Anthony Ioele, Head of Vending Management Solutions, said:

'Today's Agreement is very important to MEI and our customer base in Europe, it
provides the ability for MEI and Vianet to provide the best solutions to improve
our customers' efficiencies and profitability through implementation of MEI
EASITRAX and the vOpen system.

We expect our customers to be able to demonstrate substantial operational
benefits from our partnership with Vianet.'

nice to see this one come alive been holding this for a while now so heres hoping its about to fly

Results better than expected too...all in all up from below 5p at start of Feb to almost 9p at its highest in trade today.
More to come hopefully...

Now looking like a split up of the company....
US stock up 8% on the and a further4% after hours, so should see it tick up in the Uk tomorrow.

viacom is not vianet the symbol is the same but the companies are nowhere near

Cheers ssanbs - yes just saw it via the news tab based on symbol & didn't read fully! Apologies

Up 50% in last 4 weeks & back on the move today with +5% Nice, any further news?

Any thoughts on this RNS.

"Vianet were notified today that following a purchase of 6,434,260 shares on 22
March 2005, Michael Underwood's shareholding in Vianet is now 14,646,758
ordinary shares representing 10.84% of the enlarged shares in issue."

vianet up on rumours of a tie-up deal with coca cola, this would endorse their product on the back of the GSK deal recently