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Ideal Shopping Direct

January 2010

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IDS reached a new high on the back of an acquisition and trading update. Strong trading in Q4 means results will be ahead of forecasts - vindicating our recent buy advice in November. Net cash at the period end was Â£9.3m.IDS is buying Lead The Good Life (LTG) for an initial Â£5m (Â£0.75m cash plus shares) with a deferred earnout of Â£2.2m based on future performance. LTG is a retailer of plants and garden equipment selling by mail order, the internet and home shopping channels. LTG is already a business known well to IDS as two directors, Paul Wright and Valerie Kaye, set the business up in 2008 and its products are already promoted on Ideal's home shopping channels. In its first 17 months of trading it made a ...

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