Crystal Gaming IPO Date Announced

[kavaman]

Crystal Gaming group has announced plans to list on London's Alternative Investment Market (AIM) on 25 November 2005. For the past several weeks the forthcoming IPO, originally estimated at GBP 140 million has been the subject of intense speculation regarding a date and valuation.

My opinion:
Oh yeah lets make the guy has stolen money from people for many years by running somewhat shady casinos a millionaire.. Yeehaa... This world is so WRONG...

The good point in this is , that maybe mr oliver curran has to work as a honest operator from this point on. A listed company cant rip of people.

-kavaman

[thelawnet]

A listed company cant rip of people.

Yeah right

[scrollock]

A listed company cant rip of people.

-kavaman

try explaining that to pensioners who were ripped off for billions and now live in poverty because robert maxwell decided to raid their pension funds in order to boost his company's share price.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/1249739.stm

The mirror group was a FTSE100 listed company, so if it can happen here it can certainly happen on the AIM listings.

[oblomov]

Just in case no one had noticed,see the final paragraph of this link reporting on empire/party isssues:

http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/...892330,00.html

I searched a little & couldnt find anything more detailed.

[caruso]

Ohhhhhhhh baybeeeeeeeee yessssssssssssssssss!!!!!!!!!!!!!

It's 2.40 am, and I am about to ditch my dressing gown and run naked up and down my street screaming "THERE IS A GOD!!!!!!!!!"

Thank you, oblomov - you've made my day.

...decade

...century

...millenium

...ice age

Justice has been served to the online gambling community and the human race in general.

[eek]

I see you've been taken off double-secret probation Mr 'russo
Welcome back.

Looks like all Mr Clouds hanky panky over the years has just cost him $50 million dollars.
Can't say I'm saddened by this.

Crystal Gaming has scrapped a planned £140m float. The company was due to list last Friday but that will now not happen until the new year — if at all. “We’re looking at the strategic options available,” said a source close to the company.

[oblomov]

regards Caruso-glad the news cheered you!

It would be interesting to know a little more-as I said the searches dont bring up too much.

Perhaps seymoure-pierce read some of the fruitier threads on here lol !

[caruso]

I would also like more details, although I suppose since it's off, they can reasonably claim it's a non-issue.

I've now contacted SeymourPierce twice: I emailed two of the analysts with a handful of salient, corroborated and screenshot-proven facts two months or so ago when this matter emerged - and received no reply from either person. Today, I phoned up to ask if there was any publically airable information regarding the failure. I was put through to various people, the last one of whom took my number so that the person handling "Crystal", as she called it, could get back to me with whatever they'd be at liberty to pass on. As yet, nada on this score either.

I'm starting to feel ignored.

Any of you who are interested might do worse than to give them a ring and see if they'll be more forthcoming to someone else:

http://www.seymourpierce.com/contact_us.asp

I see you've been taken off double-secret probation Mr 'russo
Welcome back.

Thanks, Eek. Question for you: the fellow who was to take over as CEO was Vivian Imerman, chairman of Glaswegian whisky producers Whyte & MacKay. If I recall correctly, you are partial to the odd dram yourself, so: had this gone ahead, how would it have affected your enjoyment of the Amber Nectar, if at all?

[eek]

how would it have affected your enjoyment of the Amber Nectar, if at all?

I think the answer would be not at all...

[Casinomeister]

I don't mean to rain on anyone's parade, but the IPO has merely been postponed - not cancelled. It's still probably going to happen, but not for a little while.