Archive for 2009

Found: 3,931,900 additional Media Square voting shares

Last Friday some clues emerged about the continuing silence surrounding the consortium of shareholders lead by Bob Morton which is seeking to replace the chairman of AIM listed Media Square by... Read more

Mission shares lose 20% of their value in eight days

Shares in the AIM listed regional marketing business The Mission Marketing Group have lost half their value since the start of the year and have fallen by over 20% since the start of the current... Read more

Cossette’s former vice chairman abandons bid for group

Cosmos Capital, the private equity backed company headed by Cossette’s co-founder and former vice chairman François Duffar, last night abandoned its bid to acquire Cossette and left the field... Read more

Cossette tells shareholders: stay with our preferred bidder

Cossette has again urged shareholders to resist the takeover bid by Cosmos Capital headed by Cossette’s co-founder and former vice-chairman François Duffar. The advice was given last... Read more

Closure of CML research business hits Creston results

The cost of closing CML Research and other restructuring wiped out nearly all of  Creston’s profit for the half year to 30 September.   Without the disastrous performance in its insight (aka... Read more

Huntsworth in £26m deal to fill US capability gap

Yesterday’s announcement that Huntsworth, the international public relations group listed on the London stock exchange, has acquired the Washington-based public affairs consultancy Dutko... Read more

Tangent struggles to absorb acquisitions and cope with recession

Tangent Communications, the AIM-list online technology and direct marketing group with a heavy involvement in the property sector, only just scraped home with a small profit for the half year to 31... Read more

More bad news from cScape Group

AIM listed internet technology specialist cScape Group suffered a loss of £319,000 in the year to 30 June, reducing its net assets to a mere £449,000.  Three days ago the group disposed of ITM... Read more

cScape offloads subsidiary for £25,000

Loss-making AIM listed internet technology specialist cScape Group has sold its computer typesetting and pre-press service subsidiary ITM Group to its management for an initial down payment of... Read more

Media Square loses another £3 million as revenues decline and borrowings grow

After a period of radical restructuring, all Media Square has to show for it so far is a continuing decline in revenues, a further loss of £2.9 million and an increase in net borrowings in the... Read more