After taking over Parkman, and taking Parkman Chief Executive Richard Cuthbert, Mouchel's share price has dropped, fuelled mainly by the reported costs of the merger. Preliminary results for the year to July will be published in October. for

However the merger costs are 'one-off's' and the new organisation is stronger (and claims it will make further acquistions). Is it ready for take-off in the run-up to the publication of accounts?

shinny........... got away with this one but not so lucky with Jarvis and Cattles :-(

Next one on the list...JJB
Hope you haven't got these skinny!

Amazingly - no!

Luckily me neither skinny, but there are a lot of poor sods who will get cleaned out here then the company will be bought out of administraton and continue trading...it is happening too many times!

I don't know about JJB, but the MCHL situation certainly stinks.

The 1st time it happened to me was with coloroll in @1990. From memory the company covered @10 brands including Denby and Kosset carpets. Of these 8 or 9 still trade today.

A quick google came up with this - Rolling over the past

Micheal Ashcroft...one of his companies cost me a few quid, not a total but it may be now (I've even forgotten the name..blanked out by my mind! LOL)

opto - a couple of years old, but worth a read - Leading Edge: I cut my teeth on Fleet Street unions

Opo, Do you know if he is related to this Ashcroft http://www.martinfrost.ws/htmlfiles/dec2007/ashcroft_donor.html by any chance?

Stan, corrected my post 167, not John but Micheal Ashcroft. He had a company called Carlyle, I think it was registered in Belize..didn't do me a lot of good!
Seems both the Ashcrofts have had a very busy life.

Baron Michael Ashcroft, to give him his full name... Say no more.