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five - a - side football operator powerleague today said it had agreed a £42. 5million takeover offer from its biggest shareholder .
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powerleague notes it had booked impairments of £2. 82 million for the 2013 year against the carrying value of four centres and disposal write - offs .
five - a - side football centre operator powerleague group ltd has reported narrowing losses for the 2013 year as operating profits returned to black despite tough first quarter trading .
the ex - amstrad and tottenham hotspur chief executive led a management buy - out of powerleague from investment group 3i in 2003 and owns 6. 1 per cent .
after taking a tax credit of £629, 000 – and £141, 000 in exceptional items - powerleague group ended the 2013 year with a loss of £32, 000 .
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powerleague bought jjb' s soccer domes business for £17. 4million in march last year, but now wants to pursue growth plans under private ownership due to the recession and tight credit markets .
powerleague, which has its head office in glasgow and operates 46 football centres across the uk and ireland, said it opened two new centres in london in the 2013 year, both of which are “exceeding expectations” .
powerleague is the original and premier provider of commercial small sided football in the uk. it all started in 1987 in paisley, scotland, and we are now the world’s largest provider with over 50 community clubs across europe .
it said:' patron sports leisure believes that powerleague' s growth prospects are best served away from the constraints of the public market where it can access a wider range of funding options to finance its growth than are currently available.'
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the biggest opportunity that came my way was when i was at tottenham hotspur football club – i was chief executive and alan [ lord sugar ] was chairman. i was approached by 3i, which had invested about £350m in a five - a - side football company called powerleague .
powerleague foundation is all about encouraging and supporting people to take part. the way we do that is by providing and supporting help for coaching and playing. this might be awarding grants, developing initiatives, helping to provide facilities, expertise and equipment, or coaching grants for talented, underprivileged individuals .
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the group notes in accounts for the 2013 year to december 28 it has turned around an operating loss of £596, 000 reported for 2012 to book operating profits after exceptional items of £2. 12 million .
group revenues rose nine per cent to £29. 7 million (2012: £27. 2 million) and while operating profits increased to £2. 12 million (2012; £596, 000 loss), group finance costs of £2. 81 million left the group with a pre - tax loss of £520, 000, down from a pre - tax loss of £3. 63 million in 2012 .
revenue from facilities hire rose more than 12 per cent to £25. 3 million (2012; £22. 4 million) though sales of goods was down almost six per cent to £4. 52 million (2012: £4. 8 million) .
in the 2012 year, the group had booked £3. 04 million in finance costs and a pre - tax loss of £3. 63 million .
powerleage group, which de - listed from the stock exchange in 2009 following private equity firm patron capital partners' £42. 5 million acquisition of the business, notes it repaid £2. 93 million in borrowing in the 2013 year, down from £9. 53 million repaid in 2012 .
bank term loans were reduced to £16. 04 million in the 2013 year, down from £25 million at the 2012 year end .
however, loans to the parent company, patron sports leisure sarl, rose from £14. 25 million in 2012 to £22. 6 million at the end of the 2013 year .
loans to the parent company are repayable in february 2017 and bear interest, which is repayable in february 2017, at between seven and 10 per cent .
the group notes in a june 2014 accounts sign - off it made a “strong start” to the current financial year, “benefiting from strategic initiatives, strengthening economy and milder weather to date in 2014” .
powerleage group finance director, sheena beckwith states in 2013 accounts: “new long - term sponsorship agreements signed or extended with leading brands lucozade, budweiser, mitre, and nike and an exciting pipeline of of sites built up while the rest of the market was inactive, are set to help the group deliver its strongest trading performance since 2010. ”
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its executive chairman claude littner - a former colleague of sir alan sugar who appears in the apprentice - stands to make £2. 6million from the deal .
the firm, which has 43 football centres, has recommended the offer from patron sports leisure, a subsidiary of european investment firm patron capital which owns 29 per cent .
shares in the firm rose 15 per cent on news of the deal, which has been on the cards since patron said it was considering an offer for rest of the company in april .
mr littner will resign on completion of the deal, but work as a consultant for six months. current chief executive sean tracey, who owns 4 per cent of the firm, will stay and exchange his stake for shares in patron .
the latest results from the business showed pre - tax profits edging up 4 per cent to £5. 4million in the year to july 4 .
the firm has cut its debts by £2million to £36. 4million but plans to open two new sites - at regents park in central london and yardley in the midlands during the first half of the year, as well as extending its pipeline of potential sites .
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claude littner, 66, is known for his formidable interviewing style when grilling contestants on bbc one’s the apprentice. the businessman has stepped up to replace nick hewer as lord sugar’s adviser on the programme this year. he lives in north london with his wife, thelma .
the degree i took was a sandwich, so i spent six months at college and six months working for a business, lucas cav [ the motor and aerospace manufacturer ] .
my first wage was £12 and i was very disappointed because after tax it came to about £7 .
it influenced me hugely. my father was in business so the conversation all the time was to do with business and how things were growing, obstacles and profit. i was lucky to have a sense of business from an early age .
i had my first and most successful business when i was eight years old. at school i used my lunch break to go and take orders from my friends for gobstoppers. i bought them for a ha’penny each because i was buying them in such large quantities and i sold them for a penny each .
i’ve always been a very strong saver. i have always diligently put money in the post office or bank and watched it accumulate .
from a very young age i was also buying shares. my parents and grandparents thought this was wonderful. but now, later in life, i think, what was the point in all that saving? what do i do with all this money ?
perhaps in my earlier life i should saved a bit less, spent a bit more and enjoyed myself .
they were probably blue chips. i was about 13. i was watching every single day, looking in the papers to see if they’d gone up a penny or two. i would sell them and make a few pounds’ profit and i was very pleased .
i held on to shares that were losing money, instead of cutting my losses. it’s a typical investors’ thing .
i’m not a big spender. i don’t yearn for anything. i’ve got some nice, expensive cars but not because it gives me great pleasure particularly .
i sound like a really lonely old person but it’s quite the opposite. it’s not to do with material things that give me happiness. i’ve got a big, healthy family. i’ve got a wonderful wife and wonderful children, grandchildren, friends. those are the things that are priceless to me and give me the greatest enjoyment .
in the apprentice you’re famed for putting contestants in their place when they make a mistake. what’s the biggest financial mistake you’ve made ?
i’ve made loads. i continue to make them. i amaze myself at just how many mistakes i make. i certainly try to learn from them .
inevitably, you get problems and dilemmas in business. you get situations where you’re not sure of the right answer. so, you have to make a decision based on your evaluation of the circumstances and very often i’ll make the wrong decision .
the beauty of that is not having a big ego and thinking because i made that decision i will carry it through to the bitter end but being sensible enough to recognise that you’ve made a bad call .
i think i’ve been too generous when i’ve had an opportunity. i’ve been very happy to share my opportunity with other managers or bring in people and give them a share or percentage. i could have been a lot tougher in terms of keeping a bigger share holding .
i don’t think so. there are lots of apprentices who come up with ideas which may seem good, but when you delve into it there are reasons why it wouldn’t make a good investment. i don’t think i’ve spotted an investment that we absolutely should have made that we didn’t make. those companies that he [ lord sugar ] has invested in have done very well .
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the companies i’ve worked for have always had a pension scheme and i’ve always gone in for it. so i have a large pension pot that i haven’t touched because i don’t really need the money .
when i was 13 my grandmother bought me a gold watch and when i was 18 my parents bought me a gold strap for it. i have a ring that was my father’s. if i lost my ring or my watch i’d be really upset. apart from that there are no material possessions that i really care about .
i can’t see the point of debit cards. i use my credit card and always pay it off at the end of the month. i’d hate to miss a payment and get a ridiculously huge interest charge .
in the benefit of hindsight i would be a bit freer with money and wouldn’t have been so keen on saving. but at the time i didn’t know how my life would turn out and i was always worried .
if things went bad i would always have money saved up for a rainy day. this is a very expensive country, property is expensive, everything is expensive, but i think it’s very important for young people to save .
my children are in a fortunate position because they have a wealthy father. they are not in the same position i was in. they’ve both got very good jobs but they’ve got children and life is very expensive. my advice is to save if you can .
you’ve just been promoted from interviewer in the apprentice to be on the bench with karren brady alongside lord sugar. what are your top tips for getting a promotion ?
i don’t regard it as a promotion. it was something that alan asked me to do and i was pleased that he asked me. of course, i don’t like to refuse him anything so it was more of an honour than a promotion .
i’ve always been quite brave if i wanted a promotion or another job. my first real job was with unilever and i absolutely loved my time there. it didn’t take me very long before i said to my manager that i wanted a promotion .
if you’re doing a good job and you’re ambitious then i think there’s nothing wrong with finding the right time and the right person and explaining how keen you are to get a promotion, another job or something to stretch you further .
on the other hand, if you’re in an environment where you’re lucky to have a job and people are losing theirs then it’s not a good idea to ask for a promotion. you have to be sensible about the environment you’re working in and perhaps sometimes keep your head down and hope that the axe doesn’t fall on you .
it was bleeding money and they couldn’t stand it as they just weren’t seeing any returns. they asked me if i could do something with it. i told them my skills and knowledge of professional football would be of no use to them. they didn’t listen and said i should try and do something with it. so i did .
eventually 3i said they wanted to dispose of the company, so i bought it. later i floated it and then sold it, and made a large sum of money in the process .
a lot – mainly jewish charities, but a few years ago i had cancer. i’m very lucky to have survived that so i’ve got a particular affinity to some cancer charities. i had something called non - hodgkin’s lymphoma and most people die from it, so i was incredibly lucky to survive .
to make sure that my children and grandchildren are well provided for. i haven’t really got a particular goal, just capital preservation .
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e for the whole of his group. it was his money they had no right to keep it as it wasn’t given as a deposit in any way. it was his bus fare home! luckily his friends paid for him or he wouldn’t have been able to get home i’m so angry my son was treated this way he was spoken to like crap i have rang to complain and all i got was an apology that is not good enough i’m afraid
i have been trying to cancel a booking at the mill hill centre at 18: 30 on sunday 10th for about 3 days now. i have called the centre and tried to cancel online but have been told to contact head
office. every time i call head office the phone goes straight to voicemail and i am unable to leave a message as the mailbox is full .
please can you help me cancel the booking as i do not want to be charged. the reason for the cancellati
on is my friend has booked a pitch for the same time on saturday instead therefore we do not need the sunday booking anymore .
e fairlop as i am fuming. my husband ruptured his achilles whilst playing on one of your pitches last tuesday (24 may) evening. he
and had to leave his car in the car park until i was able to collect it. he telephoned
fairlop the following day to let them know what had happened and why his car was there. he is now in a cast / boot and will be for the next 8 weeks at least. he is not able to walk let alone drive .
we live 30 mins drive away so it has not been easy to collect as i had to find someone that was able to drive me there as it is hardly around the corner. i also had more important things to do like taking him to various different hospital and doctor appointmen
ts as well as looking after him and my children. i finally managed to get to fairlop today and found this charming note to add insult to injury .
just to clarify, my husband injured himself on your premises and phoned and left a message to explain why his car had to be left in the car park. it certainly was not through choice! i am thoroughly
then i hope they think twice about using your premises in the future. i will certainly be telling everyone i know about this and will be looking to use alternativ
e, after booking a 5 a side for the evening, some of our guys couldn’t make it due the fact they got stuck in london. i’ve called to canc
for around 9 years now and never had such an issue, in fact we have already to wait a few times over 30 minutes as they have probably overbook the pitch but we have never complaint about it. it’s very frustratin
dont answer calls or online messages via their website, the phone mailbox is full so you cant leave a message .
hi, i would just like to thank claire, the staff and the members of the walking football on wednesday (14th). unfortunat
i am now starting my recovery, but i must state again that the care and support was excellent .
18 from pitch 1 between 1330 - 1430. not handed in to reception ,
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powerleague ( known as lucozade powerleague for sponsorship reasons ) is an operator of small sided football artificial pitches with 45 football centres in the uk and ireland and based in paisley , scotland . in 1987 keith rogers opened the world ’s first commercial 5-a-side football centre in paisley under the brand name of pitz , . he built a successful business with 11 centres and a site pipeline before selling the profitable business to 3i who rebranded the business as powerleague . rogers immediately went on to found the highly successful rival business , goals soccer centres . in 2002 , after the business went into decline under new management , 3i approached tottenham hotspur f.c. chief executive claude littner to take over the executive role . in 2003 , littner lead a management buyout of the firm , leaving 3i with a minority stake . having listed on the alternative investment market , in 2008 powerleague took over the soccerdome centres from jjb sports in a £ 17.4 m deal . in october 2009 , the company agreed to go private again , through a £ 42m venture capital purchase by patron sports leisure , an existing 29 % shareholder and subsidiary of patron capital . in 2012 powerleague considered an offer for a goals soccer centres as a rival offer to the bid by ontario teachers to buy goals , but these were abandoned . in 2013 powerleague 's revenues were £ 29.7 million . 
powerleague (known as lucozade powerleague for sponsorship reasons) is an operator of small sided football artificial pitches with 45 football centres in the uk and ireland and based in paisley, scotland. in 1987 keith rogers opened the world ’s first commercial 5-a-side football centre in paisley under the brand name of pitz,. he built a successful business with 11 centres and a site pipeline before selling the profitable business to 3i who rebranded the business as powerleague. rogers immediately went on to found the highly successful rival business, goals soccer centres. in 2002, after the business went into decline under new management, 3i approached tottenham hotspur f.c. chief executive claude littner to take over the executive role. in 2003, littner lead a management buyout of the firm, leaving 3i with a minority stake. having listed on the alternative investment market, in 2008 powerleague took over the soccerdome centres from jjb sports in a £ 17.4 m deal. in october 2009, the company agreed to go private again, through a £ 42m venture capital purchase by patron sports leisure, an existing 29% shareholder and subsidiary of patron capital. in 2012 powerleague considered an offer for a goals soccer centres as a rival offer to the bid by ontario teachers to buy goals, but these were abandoned. in 2013 powerleague's revenues were £ 29.7 million.
powerleague (known as lucozade powerleague for sponsorship reasons) is an operator of small sided football artificial pitches with 45 football centres in the uk and ireland and based in paisley, scotland. in 1987 keith rogers opened the world ’s first commercial 5-a-side football centre in paisley under the brand name of pitz,. he built a successful business with 11 centres and a site pipeline before selling the profitable business to 3i who rebranded the business as powerleague. rogers immediately went on to found the highly successful rival business, goals soccer centres. in 2002, after the business went into decline under new management, 3i approached tottenham hotspur f.c. chief executive claude littner to take over the executive role. in 2003, littner lead a management buyout of the firm, leaving 3i with a minority stake. having listed on the alternative investment market, in 2008 powerleague took over the soccerdome centres from jjb sports in a £ 17.4 m deal. in october 2009, the company agreed to go private again, through a £ 42m venture capital purchase by patron sports leisure, an existing 29% shareholder and subsidiary of patron capital. in 2012 powerleague considered an offer for a goals soccer centres as a rival offer to the bid by ontario teachers to buy goals, but these were abandoned. in 2013 powerleague's revenues were £ 29.7 million.