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ASK Central

March 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.

Ask eased fears of a profit warning when it issued a trading statement on 6 January indicating that like-for-like sales had "improved" (Ask never gives specifics) in December. Meanwhile, trading in the 20 restaurants opened in 2002 has also been encouraging and results for the year ended 29 December will be "in linewith expectations." Ask currently trades from 146 outlets and plans are in hand to add a further 25-30 restaurants in 2003. Clearly,the latest share sale by the founding Kaye brothers of 3.5m shares in November has unnerved investors, so has weak trading from Pizza Express, (326p) and general fears that consumers are eating their pizzas at home, as indicated by recent strong trading figu ...

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Landround

ROK Property Solutions - Falls through stop-loss in spite of upgrade

Ask Central - TDR Capital bids 220p (March 2004)

Ask Central - Receives offer from City Centre (February 2004)

Ask Central - In takeover talks (December 2003)

Ask Central - Beats expectations again (October 2003)

Ask Central - Strong buoyant candidate (June 2003)

Ask Central - Undeserved discount to Pizza Express (April 2003)

Ask Central (October 2002)

Ask Central - Thrashing pizza express (June 2002)

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