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Secondary Recommendation

Urbium - Late night bars group trading well

August 2003

Investing in shares may lose you all or some of your money. Past performance is no indication of future performance. Some of the shares recommended here may be small company shares, which can be relatively illiquid and hard to trade and this makes such shares more risky than other investments.

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  • URM
Long-term investors will recall that late night bar operator, Urbium, was the only good thing to come out of former stock market lemon, Trocadero PLC, which used to manage the Trocadero leisure complex in Piccadilly.  Trocadero was subsequently given an infusion of new management and restored some degree of respectability when it built up an intellectual property rights business, including the rights to works by Enid Blyton and Agatha Christie, to run alongside some late licence bars.  Last May, with each side achieving critical mass the company was split into two AIM quoted businesses, with the IP side called Chorion, (5.25p) and the bars trading as Urbium.  It's the latter  that's now making all the running, followi ...

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