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Ottakar's - Harry Potter release to boost sentiment

March 2003

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After we made Ottakars, the specialist book retailer, one of our five New Year Naps last month we subsequently met with finance director, Edward Knighton at the head office in Clapham. Knightonwas in confident form, following his firm's buoyant January trading statement, which confirmed that another record year is in prospect. Through Ottakar's ability to take market share from less focused rivals the group is already showing the classic hallmarks of a great growth stock. Sentiment towards the shares will receive a further boost on 21 June when the prodigious JK Rowling releases her long awaited fifth Harry Potter novel, "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix." Broker, Numis, forecas ...

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