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...These will allow Topps to continue to make money in secondary sales that occur in the future. The Spac transaction values Topps at 12.5 times this year’s ebitda....
...On Wednesday, Topps Tiles, the homeware retailer, warned that same-store sales for the year to September were expected to be 3 per cent lower than the corresponding period last year, as consumer confidence...
...In 2007, alongside Madison Dearborn Partners, the private equity group, Mr Eisner bought Topps, a trading card company that has a licensing deal with several US professional leagues and the English Premier...
...Darren Topp, chief executive of BHS, claimed he stopped his boss Dominic Chappell from booking holiday flights on the company’s travel budget....
...Topps Tiles edged 0.3 per cent higher to 72.3p after Goldman Sachs added the retailer to its “conviction buy” list....
...Toby Belsom and Robin West at Aviva Investors say this high-street resilience was reflected in the strong share price performance of kitchen specialist Howden Joinery, car retailer Vertu and DIY supplier Topps...
...News that Topps Tiles had seen an uptick in trading during April and early May helped lift the retailer by 16.9 per cent....
...Moshi has sold 20m collectible figures with Vivid Imaginations and 10m packs of Topps trading cards, with a total of more than $100m-worth of physical toys sold at retail last year....
...One of the hardest hit categories on the high street, there has been a string of insolvencies from the likes of Habitat, Focus DIY and TJ Hughes in recent months, and a shock profit warning from Topps Tiles...
...- Topps Tiles says same store sales down 6.9 per cent in last seven weeks — statement....
...Forstmann led acquisitions of companies such Gulfstream Aerospace, Dr Pepper, Topps and IMG, the sports marketing company....
...Topp said, “where there is smoke there is usually fire.” It is likely to be a sweaty few months for Sino Forest shareholders....
...Among small caps, Topps Tiles slumped 29 per cent to 33p on a profit warning. The flooring retailer said like-for-like sales had dropped by 10.4 per cent in recent weeks....
...Retailers remained following a warning from Topps Tiles on Thursday of a sharp deterioration in consumer confidence....
...Others – HMV, the record and book store, and Topps Tiles – gave footie-related warnings in 2006 but have survived relatively unscathed as listed entities....
...Both worked at Topps before deciding to launch another start-up. “We came across the baby market,” says Mr Lore, chief executive of Quidsi, the parent company that owns the Diapers.com site....
...- Corporate: Kraft Foods, Ryanair, BAA, Lloyds, Axis-Shield, PartyGaming, Theo Fennel, Sportingbet, Topps Tiles, Aggreko, Allied Gold, Forth Ports, Rio Tinto....
Three-day winning streak ends
...Sponsorship makes up about 5 per cent of the Premier League’s £1bn annual turnover, with sponsors including Nike, Lucozade, Wrigley, EA Sports, Topps Merlin and Sporting iD....
...The retailer has been mooted as a possible bidder for Topps Tiles. Wellstream was down 2.7 per cent at 445p after a profit warning from rig services peer Lamprell....
...Topps, he said, was “a little smaller than Disney was when I started but there is lots of upside”....
...Downgrading to “hold” from “buy”, broker Panmure Gordon said any further trading downturn would put Topps at risk of default even before its debt covenants tighten next year....
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