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Shares in celebrations, craft, gifting, stationery and creative play products group IG Design (IGR) are currently significantly higher today at 71p with it announcing “Appointment of Chief Financial Officer”. What’s the overall situation here now?...
Previously writing on celebrations, craft, gifting, stationery and creative play products group IG Design (IGR), in November with the shares at 245p I noted it not seeing an improvement in supply shortages and inflationary pressures and that I remained cautious. Today a “trading update” and the shares, having last closed at 255p, down to 115p. So what’s the situation?...
Previously writing on ‘celebrations, craft, gifting, stationery and creative play products’ group IG Design (IGR), last month with the shares down to around 300p I concluded that its challenges made the valuation still look ‘challenging’. The shares are currently up today on the back of half-year results, but are 245p. So what’s the story now?...
A trading update announcement from ‘celebrations, craft, gifting, stationery and creative play products’ group IG Design (IGR) commences that it “has delivered a good revenue performance in the first half of the financial year with like-for-like revenue up 11% on the prior year, and up 5% on proforma revenues (including CSS prior to ownership) for the six months to 30 September 2019”. So why are the shares, currently at around 300p, more than 30% lower in response?...
