FINANCIAL ANALYSIS

Financial Analysis

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Introduction

The Stanley Gibbons plc is a company quoted on the Alternative Investment Methods (AMI) on the London Stock Exchange and which specializes in the retailing of the collectable postage stamps and the similar products. The group is incorporated in the Jersey but with the London offices, Ringwood and the Guernsey. The company of Stanley Gibbon is the major dealer of stamp and philatelic publisher. (Stanley Gibbons, 2011) The subsidiary philatic of the company, Stanley Gibbon Limited has the imperial guarantee from the Queen Elizabeth II.

Discussion

History

The company of Stanley Gibbon was opened in the year 1856, and it has remained at the forefront of the stamp trading. From the beginning, it has build its reputation in the collection of the Penny Black stamp along with their expertise, research and quality that has given the company a reputation that it enjoys today as well. The business has been spread into the research, catalogues and the auctions and also set it on the road in offering the complete services to the philatelists in the world today. There become wide ranges of the collectibles that have been sold on the internet that came as an outcome of the eight websites. The business of Stanley Gibbon has been grown since last five years period that includes (Stanley, 2007) in the building of sales and the autographs as a mechanism of the alternative investment. The company was required to ensure the company that had the sufficient security, but it wanted to manage effectively their width of the brand and cost effective and also the secured way in order to communicate between the offices. The company of the Gibbon plc is having the proud on its financial position and its standing in the market, and it meant that they had targeted numerous threats of the security.

There are various issues of reliability that has been previously experienced by the company for instance the device of the Sonic wall which has led them in order to help the Key fort that is the local provider of the service, which in the hope they would found the reliable and cost effective solution in order to meet all the requirements. The solution of the Key fort has suggested the company along with many resources. There is a wide range of the challenges to Gibbon which they have needed to overcome those (Basu, 2011) challenges and also they have also the limited budget. They also went down in the sonic wall devise and also having no result in the technical support and also had been gone down from running around in order to find replacement. They also had apprehensively fitted the quality of any device.

Product

The group of Stanley Gibbon plc is engaged in the selling stamps, unusual proofs and related memorabilia, improvement and operation of the collectible websites, publishing of the philatelic, mail order, auctioneering, retailing and the developmental garnishing. The Stanley Group operates in the subsidiaries that include Guernsey, Jersey, holdings and the ...