3 December 2012
Panther Securities PLC
("Panther" or "Group")
Trading update
Panther is pleased to announce the further trading update following on from
details provided in its Interim Management Statement for the three month period
ended 30 September 2012.
Purchases
The Group has now completed the following purchases:
* Long leasehold retail investment 14-26 Williamson Street, Liverpool.
* Feuhold (Scottish equivalent of freehold) office and industrial investment
in Ruchill Street, Glasgow.
* Long leasehold interest of the retail and office investment 18-80 & 84-106
Main Street, Coatbridge, near Glasgow.
These will produce total net income of £1,215,000 on the combined investment of
£7,045,000 (excluding stamp duty).
Panther had also previously announced that it had agreed terms and instructed
solicitors for the freehold property purchase of a multi-let high street retail
parade investment for circa £4 million with rental income of £770,000 per
annum. However due to the LPA receiver having the wrong information on a
significant tenancy and a further tenant exercising a break clause the Group is
now reconsidering the purchase of this property.
As previously announced, the Group is still seeing significant value in
properties currently on the market and we are considering raising new finance
via bank loans or possibly issue of bonds, or disposing of some of our
properties where we can obtain good prices from special purchasers.
As ever we remain upbeat about Panther's future prospects.
Chairman's Mini Ramblings
At the moment there are probably over 100,000 empty shops in the UK and we
probably have our fair share. This morning during breakfast I nearly choked on
my kippers when I heard the Radio 4 newsreader and both a male and female MP
castigating Starbucks for not paying enough corporation tax.
No-one said Starbucks:-
* Have opened about 750 shops in the UK and probably pay over £10,000,000 per
year commercial rates.
* Employ about 15,000 people on whose salary the company pays a huge amount
of National Insurance tax.
* Probably spend over £150,000 per shop in the UK fitting out these shops on
which 20% VAT is levied.
* Collect and pay a large amount of VAT on sales.
* Insure all their properties and have to pay tax on the premiums.
* Use a large amount of electricity, gas and water paid for plus VAT and
almost certainly a climate change levy.
All of the tens of millions of pounds they contribute to the UK economy is paid
whether they make a "profit" or not. Their corporation tax payment/non-payment
is legal and probably negligible compared to the enormous overall contribution
to the Treasury and the benefits they provide in filling our High Streets with
bright, pleasant, desirable units, used by hundreds of thousands of people
every week is unmentioned.
Unfortunately we do not have one single Starbuck tenancy in our portfolio. They
would be a good tenant for us, for a pension fund, for an institutional or
private investor. We need many more foreign companies to come and invest in the
UK not to frighten them away with a McCarthy style witch-hunt.
What really caused my blood pressure to rise as I drove to work was the fact
that the lady MP was notorious for overseeing the complete failure of a London
Council's child protection system and the male MP had previously resigned for
an expense irregularity by taking advantage of a loophole available to MPs to
avoid Capital Gains tax on a second home. It almost goes without saying that
neither has had any business experience.
However, as I parked, a song from 1966 by The Kinks came on the radio which
started with "The taxman's taken all my dough" which put me back into good
humour as I realised nothing has changed, we still have vindictive idiots in
charge, just different ones!
Andrew Perloff
Chairman
For further information contact:
Panther Securities PLC 01707 667 300
Andrew Perloff - Chairman
Simon Peters - Finance Director
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