Forum Archive Index - May 2004

[Robin Benson <rob@hammerheadmedia.co.uk>]

Pumpkin Patch are already in the UK. Myself and my wife were in one of 
their shops and this is what we noted:

- Considered "designer" clothing. However, quite reasonably priced 
given this.
- Really nice clothing, considering the competition
- Few customers in the shop, but this was on a weekday afternoon.
- Not much product on "special" compared with other children's clothes 
shops (should there be? or maybe they don't need to?)
- Branching out into maternity wear (in our recent experience, UK is in 
need of good quality, comfortable, reasonably-priced maternity wear)

Robin

Websites:
http://www.pumpkinpatch.co.uk/
http://www.pumpkinpatch.co.nz/

On 14 May 2004, at 09:53, SJ.Greaves wrote:

> [...] One IPO I will be getting a prospectus for is Pumpkin patch. 
> They are using the money raised to expand into the UK. The current 
> owners will continue to have a major share holding in the 
> company. There trendy baby wear should really appeal to the poms.
>  I'm not that good at reading and making sense of an entire IPO 
> prospectus as well. However I read an Australian article a while ago 
> that said 95% of IPO's didn't get within 20% of there proposed results 
> after the first 12 months. So if you understand all of a prospectus, 
> you still only know alot about nothing. You still need to go back to 
> the  basic fundamentals of the company and what they intend to do.


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