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Esken (formerly Stobart Group) – failure of sale of Stobart Air, Duff trading, placing ahoy and possible part-sale of Southend airport

By Nigel Somerville | Tuesday 15 June 2021


Disclosure: I have no positions in any stocks mentioned, and no plans to initiate any positions within the next 72 hours. I wrote this article myself, and it expresses my own opinions. I am not receiving compensation for it (other than from ShareProphets). I have no business relationship with any company whose stock is mentioned in this article.


Fully listed Esken Limited (ESKN), formerly Neil Woodford favourite Stobart Group Ltd (STOB), has announced that – as I suggested back on 31st May – the sale of Stobart Air and Carlisle Lake District Airport to Ettyl Limited has collapsed. Worse still, support for Stobart Air has been terminated, Stobart Air has terminated its franchise agreement with Aer Lingus, will cease trading and liquidators are to be appointed. The pain for Esken does not end there, but later on it confirmed talks to potentially sell 30% of London Southend airport. But that’s not the whole story……

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