Pawnbroker albemarle & bond to get cash injection
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The company is understood to be seeking to raise up to £20million to strengthen its balance sheet. It follows a tough year for the company which saw its shares dive in April after a surprise
profits warning. It blamed a slump in the price of gold which hit its gold-buying offshoot and its traditional pawn business. Following the alert chief executive Barry Stevenson stepped
down and chairman Greville Nicholls, who had been chief between 1995 and 2009, took day-to-day control. A&B is also due to report annual results this week, forecast to be £8.7milion,
down from £21million prevously.