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Media Square, the AIM listed owner of agencies that include CMW, Gate, and Lloyd Northover, must be well positioned for a place in the Guinness Book of Records for the smallest board of directors for a public company.   Yesterday’s resignation of non-executive Nigel Bacon, whose association goes back to the early days of the company, ...

Posted to Bob Willott on the bottom line (Weblog) by BOB WILLOTT on 19 Nov 2009
Aegis announces very little

This morning Aegis Group produced another trading statement that is the nearest thing to gobbledegook that a shareholder could ask for.   The company summarised several paragraphs of random data with the words: “The results after nine months’ trading allow us to reconfirm the guidance given at the half year”.  The guidance given at ...

Posted to Bob Willott on the bottom line (Weblog) by BOB WILLOTT on 19 Nov 2009
Hasgrove predicts 60% fall in pre-tax profit in 2009

Hasgrove, the AIM listed communications and digital marketing group, intimated this morning that its pre-tax profit for 2009 will fall by about 60% from the £4.2 million achieved in 2008 to about £1.8 million. The company blamed exceptional restructuring, recruitment and business development costs of over £1.7 million for much of the ...

Posted to Bob Willott on the bottom line (Weblog) by BOB WILLOTT on 18 Nov 2009
Former management duo matches Cossette’s favoured offer

Cosmos Capital, the Canadian private equity backed vehicle headed by Cossette co-founder and former vice chairman François Duffar, has increased its all cash bid to match the offer for Cossette favoured by the current management. Last week Cossette announced its support for an offer of Canadian$7.87 per share from another private equity investor ...

Posted to Bob Willott on the bottom line (Weblog) by BOB WILLOTT on 18 Nov 2009
Weak balance sheet forces Asia Digital to convene special shareholders’ meeting

Asia Digital, the AIM listed online advertising sales agency that formerly traded as Deal Group Media, has been compelled to convene a meeting of shareholders following disclosure that its net assets had fallen to less than half its issued share capital. Such a meeting is required by law to enable shareholders to consider “whether any, and if so ...

Posted to Bob Willott on the bottom line (Weblog) by BOB WILLOTT on 18 Nov 2009
ISIS EP now owns 17% of Adventis

Baronsmead Venture Capital Trust and other clients of private equity house ISIS EP between them now hold shares accounting for nearly 17% of the capital of AIM listed Adventis Group, following the placing of new shares last week (see Adventis raises extra £825,000 share capital). Adventis is a specialist marketing group and has strong links with ...

Posted to Bob Willott on the bottom line (Weblog) by BOB WILLOTT on 14 Nov 2009
Confusion about demand for Media Square shareholders’ meeting

Attempts by a group of agitating investors to requisition a shareholders’ meeting seem to have created both consternation and confusion at AIM-listed Media Square. The demand for a meeting – aimed at ousting chairman Roger Parry and installing three new directors lead by Bob Morton – was made on 30 October by a group of three shareholders lead by ...

Posted to Bob Willott on the bottom line (Weblog) by BOB WILLOTT on 11 Nov 2009
Cossette board recommends alternative $132m offer

Cossette, the Canadian listed marketing group under siege from a company headed by its co-founder and former vice chairman François Duffar, is recommending its shareholders to support an alternative offer from the US private equity investment firm Mill Road Capital. The alternative offer amounts to Canadian $7.87 per share – putting a value of ...

Posted to Bob Willott on the bottom line (Weblog) by BOB WILLOTT on 10 Nov 2009
Dentsu consolidates all digital resources

Dentsu, the biggest listed Japanese marketing group, is to merge all it digital business resources under one umbrella company to be called Dentsu Digital Holdings (DDH) that will operate as a single digital agency.   The move reflects a change in strategy that the company says will “constructively eliminate and integrate internal ...

Posted to Bob Willott on the bottom line (Weblog) by BOB WILLOTT on 10 Nov 2009
Henderson to keep a stake in Pelham after Chime deal

The announcement this morning that Chime Communications will own “a majority” of the company being formed from the proposed merger of James Henderson’s Pelham Public Relations with Bell Pottinger’s corporate and financial consultancy suggests that Henderson will retain a sizeable minority stake in the ongoing business for the time being at ...

Posted to Bob Willott on the bottom line (Weblog) by BOB WILLOTT on 09 Nov 2009

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Aegis announces very little

Hasgrove predicts 60% fall in pre-tax profit in 2009

Former management duo matches Cossette’s favoured offer

Weak balance sheet forces Asia Digital to convene special shareholders’ meeting

ISIS EP now owns 17% of Adventis

Confusion about demand for Media Square shareholders’ meeting

Cossette board recommends alternative $132m offer

Dentsu consolidates all digital resources

Henderson to keep a stake in Pelham after Chime deal