Warehouse, Kathmandu AGMs upbeat affairs

Warehouse, Kathmandu AGMs upbeat affairs
Jenny Ruth
Profit guidance upgrades, beating said upgrades and other positive recent news meant the annual shareholders' meetings of retailers Kathmandu and The Warehouse on Friday were mostly upbeat affairs. One sure sign that a company which has blotted its copy book with shareholders is back in their good graces is when questions from the floor at the AGM centre around the venue and the parking. So it was at The Warehouse Group's quarter-century AGM. Shareholders of The Warehouse have had little to smile about for a number of years through which...

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