News: Ideal Shopping Direct PLC (IDLS.L)
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Retailers raise profit hopes
LONDON (Reuters) - A flurry of retail and consumer goods companies lifted profit forecasts on Thursday but remained wary about prospects for 2010 as official data and an industry survey pointed to an uneven recovery in spending.
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Shares in Ideal Shopping Direct rise nearly 9 percent after the British televison shopping company reports sales in the 21 weeks to May 24 were up around 2 percent, prompting Altium Securities to improve its forecasts after the numbers beat its previous estimates.
UPDATE 1-Ideal Shopping 21-week sales beat expectations
LONDON, June 10 (Reuters) - British television shopping company Ideal Shopping Direct Plc said on Wednesday that sales were up ahead of expectations, and it was optimistic it would return to profitability in the medium term.
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LONDON, June 10 (Reuters) - Britain's FTSE 100 index is seen opening up 13-21 points, or as much as 0.5 percent, on Wednesday, according to financial bookmakers.
UPDATE 1-Ideal Shopping swings to loss, scraps final div
LONDON, April 16 (Reuters) - British television shopping company Ideal Shopping Direct Plc scrapped its final dividend on Thursday as it announced a swing to a full year loss, but sounded an optimistic note on 2009.
Ideal Shopping full-year revenue down 3 pct year-on-year
(Reuters) - Television shopping company Ideal Shopping Direct said on Tuesday its full-year sales were 3 percent lower than a year earlier, but gross margins and overheads were in line with its revised forecast.





