Minutes of the July meeting held 1st July at The Griffin
 
First of all, as virtually nobody has responded to the request from the last minutes -
 
Please would you all tell Terry the Tax Office and Tax reference for yourself.
The sooner you do this, the sooner you will have the details to complete your Self Assessment form. Please tell Terry by the end of July .
 
Present:
Julian Kern
Terry Emmony
Phil Jones
Roy Brown
Andrew Smillie
Peter Sweeney
 
 
Apologies:
Debbie McDonnell, Steve Spence, Julie Grundy, Cynthia Brooke, Ann Nurse, Mike Arkless, Di Lane, Rod Wood, Ron Pierce, Paul Holden

1) Terry has posted the monthly position on the ExEC website for you all to view.
The overall position at the end of June was down to just under parity, with 11 of the 18 companies losing during the month, and the only significant gains being on MacDonald Hotels and Lattice.
 
2) We reviewed the recent performance of various companies, decided not to sell any at the moment, but we set a target price for Macdonald Hotels of 180p (to hold onto a gain before it drifted away) and 220p to captalise on greater gains.
We also set a sell target for Computacenter of 420p.
 
3) With £530 available to invest, but no strong recommendations, we decided not to invest, but to wait until August.
in the meantime:
   Roy will analyse Banks,
   Peter will look at Hotels and Leisure,
   Julian will watch the Travel sector (with an eye on holidays no doubt)
   Andrew will have a special interest in food (no change there then)
   Terry is going to study Support services (a lot to keep him going)
   and I will watch Construction for developments.
 
4) We are very interested in hearing some recommendations from Paul, who has not been for quite for some time (or just hearing from Paul or Ron would be nice!).
Also, we'd like to take the meeting up North in the near future, so to give you some notice we'd like to hold the October ExEC at a venue suitable to Paul and / or Ron, the date of 14th October was suggested. Please come back with a suggestion.
 
5) Next meeting - I'd like to hear which date in August is most convenient to everyone out of 5th August, 2nd September or 9th September. I'm offering to host a barbeque on 5th August at my house if that makes any difference to you.
Please advise me of attendance numbers on each date.
 
Hope to see you in August, depending on responses.
 
Regards,
 
Phil