Pandora jewellery chain loses its shine after profit warning
For a company that makes it money selling charm bracelets, Danish jewellery firm Pandora has only brought investors bad luck.
A shock profits warning sent the shares into freefall and even an arm load of its shamrock, laughing buddha and angel-shaped talismans could not have changed the fate of Mikkel Vendelin Olesen, its chief executive, who resigned with immediate effect.
The shares, worth more than £25 when the company floated last autumn, plunged nearly 70% to touch a record low of 39.30 kroner (£4.61) after the Copenhagen company scaled back its sales and profits targets for the year.
BGC Partners market analyst Louise Cooper said the misfiring company was now in pole position to win the prize for "worst IPO in the last 12 months".
That tag is embarrassing for the jeweller's high profile British chairman Allan Leighton – the former boss of Asda and the Royal Mail who is also on the board of BSkyB – who described the dire figures as "totally unacceptable".
Source: The Guardian
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Several Ways to Spot Knock-off Pandora Bracelets | Cyborg Animals
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Almost since the beginning of time, people have loved wearing jewelry. When someone designs a particularly popular type of jewelry it is inevitable that the jewelry will be copied. This has happened recently with the very famous and popular Pandora charm bracelets. Here are several ways that you can spot knock-off charm bracelets like Pandora .
The first way you can spot knock-off Pandora bracelets is by looking for a special stamp which Pandora uses on its 14 carat gold and sterling silver jewelry components. This stamp consists of “ALE 925″ on sterling silver components and “ALE 585″ on 14 carat components. These markings are traditional jeweler’s annotations which simply mean sterling silver or 14 carat gold, respectively. If there are no such markings on the charm bracelet you are looking at, chances are it is a knock-off. One thing to note however, is that other brands may eventually adopt and use this marking, since it is not a Pandora-specific trademark.
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