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Ask Central - TDR Capital bids 220p

March 2004

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.

Yet another tip to succumb to a take-over this month is Ask, where TDR Capital and Capricron Ventures, which respectively own the Pizza Express and Nando's restaurant chains, have teamed up to make a recommended cash offer of 220p a share, valuing Ask at Â£213m. Askhad earlier received an offer worth 184p from City Centre when wesuggested "awaiting events". Good call. The shares have risen a handy 61% since we made Ask a front page write-up last June. Accept the offer. ...

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