Dixons Challenged in UK Mobile Market

Dixons Carphone plc DC  has been facing challenging conditions in the UK mobile phone market as owners hold onto their existing mobiles for longer, partly due to price rises reflecting the weakness of sterling. It may also have something to do with people waking up to the fact that they do not need to change […]

Crawshaw Cancels Dividend After Customers Desert

Crawshaw CRAW  having been forced to cancel its final dividend has had the audacity to claim that the year to the 29th January was a year of strategic progress. The only progress, strategic or otherwise, was that management at last woke up to the fact that it had ceased to “resonate” with customers who had […]

CHOO Sees Significant Growth Potential Ahead

Jimmy Choo plc CHOO claims an excellent first half performance with margin expansion, impressive growth in China and a weak pound, all helping operating profit to rise by 42.6%.  Total revenue rose by 9.2% and adjusted earnings per share by 26.7%.  A strong start has been made to the second half and the company still […]

Vodafone Revenue Tumbles in UK

Vodafone VOD seems to have got its wires in a twist which will not be a surprise to many of its customers, as it describes a fall in revenue of 6.2% in Africa, Middle East and Asia Pacific for the quarter to 30th June, as “strong growth”. A revenue fall of 3.2% for Europe is […]