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Ideal Shopping Direct - TV home shopping business smashing forcasts

February 2005

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After notifying the market twice in the last three months that profits would exceed expectations, Ideal Shopping Direct, which sells home shopping products through digital television, is now expected to make a pretax profit of more than £4m in 2004, double what analysts were forecasting as recently as last September.   QVC-lookalike,Ideal Shopping, was originally borne out of humble beginnings as an off-the-page direct marketer in the 1980s, which was followed by a move into selling home products through mail order catalogues to consumers via inserts in newspapers and subscription magazines. However, Ideal recently ditched the "physical" catalogue business in favour of selling its products through the digita ...

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