Thursday is usually the busiest day of the week for scheduled company announcements, but tomorrow's agenda is looking a bit threadbare.
Greetings card seller Clinton Cards holds its annual general meeting at which it might reveal how its Christmas trading went. The loss-making company needed a bumper end of year sales bonanza more than ever as sales have been on a declining trend in the firm's new financial year, which started in August. The company said like-for-like sales in the 12 weeks to 23rd October fell 1.5% on the same period the year before. Sales in its Clinton branded shops dropped by 1.5%, while its Birthdays outlets fell by 1.3%.
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