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Stanley Gibbons SGI – Losing The Stamp Of Approval

A continually collapsing share price eventually forced Stanley Gibbons to rush out an interim trading update and publish the bad news for the first half year before the end of that first half. Now the full figures for the first half are known, things look somewhat grim. Half year sales are only the same as […]

James Halstead JHD – By Gum, That Were A Real Treat

“ Our business in life is not to get ahead of others but to get ahead of ourselves – Mark Halstead Halstead – what a name to conjure with, redolent of dark northern industrial cities at a time when British manufacturing bestrode the world and Manchester thrived as a centre of manufacturing excellence. None of […]

Is VW Germany’s Second Stalingrad ?

Germany built better armies, better motor cars, better this and better that, than any other country in the world.  Its name had become  a byword for quality, reliability and honesty until its major car manufacturer destroys those invaluable assets by being caught red handed  in a massive fraud which  not only has  major financial consequences […]

Finsbury Foods FIF – Dividends Tripled Over 2 Years

Finsbury Food Group had a longish history of never quite fulfilling its promise, until at last the promise started showing signs of becoming reality in 2013-14. In addition to  its speciality and organic breads, it is the UK’s number 1 supplier of premium cakes and has a 20% share of the UK pre packed cake […]

Hornby HRN – Still Being Impacted, Again

Hornby (HRN) still cant get its act together as it goes through yet another critical period of major operational change. Hornby is a world leading brand name, selling  Hornby train sets and Scalextric model cars. With products  which make many a fathers eye mist over with recollection of childhood memories it should be one of the […]

The EU Disintegrates Into Chaos

In the end the fine ideals and the proud words meant absolutely nothing. In the end the EU confirmed that it is nothing more than a motley collection of disparate member states, who when what they see as their own narrow national interests threatened, can not wait to be first in the rush to drive […]

Is Corbyn Labour’s Maggie Thatcher

Never since Maggie Thatcher, “milk snatcher”, was elected leader of the Tories, has a new political leader been met with such outrage. The Daily Telegraph is apopletic and vitriolic in its reaction. Cameron has already declared Corbyn a danger to the country and even a section of his own party is strongly against him. The […]