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Patisserie Holdings

December 2018

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We occasionally get it wrong when it comes to buying shares and usually the shares show relative weakness against the market before the problem appears. Sadly, in the case of TMI portfolio constituent Patisserie Holdings, the collapse came out of the blue. From my long memory, only trade finance firm and former wonder stock Versailles (in 1999) has had its shares suspended near the top of its price range.Patisserie originally claimed it had net cash of £28.8m but on 10th October it announced it had uncovered potentially fraudulent accounting irregularities including a material misstatement of accounts as well as question marks over its cash and the shares were suspended.It later transpired that not only had the cash dis ...

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Patisserie Holdings

December 2018

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