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Chime Communications reinforced a fairly positive trading update last week with the news that it is spending up to £19 million, mainly in cash, to acquire the Far Eastern sports management... Read more
The recovery in value of shares in marketing businesses came to a halt in the month to 12 May as the market appeared to digest some of the recent announcements from the sector. For example,... Read more
More gloom beset the stock market in the month to 12 April, although marketing companies suffered less than the market as a whole. The FTSE All-Share Index lost 2.09% of its value in the month,... Read more
Chime Communications announced this morning that it had become liable to pay out £8 million in cash as part of the additional performance-related purchase consideration due under agreements to... Read more
The MSFI Index of marketing companies’ share prices continued to close the gap on the FTSE All-Share Index in the month to 12 March, the third consecutive month when this has happened. The... Read more
Shorn of the Bell Pottinger public relations businesses for roughly half of 2012, Chime Communications experienced a fall in operating profit to £16.1 million in that year compared with £25.5... Read more
This morning Chime Communications announced to its shareholders that they could celebrate a profit of £17.9 million…or bemoan a loss of £1.3 million…or a variety of other numbers in... Read more
The MSFI Index of shares prices of companies in the marketing communications sector continued to make progress at a faster rate than the FTSE All-Share Index in the month to 12 February 2013,... Read more
Chime Communications announced today that it had completed the purchase of a 93% shareholding in Sebastian Coe’s Complete Leisure Group. Chime entered into an option agreement with Lord Coe last... Read more
Prices of shares in the marketing sector recovered confidence in the month to 12 January after faltering in the previous month. The sector’s MSFI Index rose by 6.53% to 36.1 (Jan 2001: 100)... Read more