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Choc Co have been selling chocolate to generations. They opened their first shop in 1905 and have been the ‘Nations Favourite’ chocolate sellers since.

They currently have over 20 products that they sell all year round (including the famous ‘Saturn Bar’) and have many seasonal products.

… because it tastes good!

The Pizza Pie Company was founded in New York in 1995.

The UK part of the company was set up in 2008. Currently it has 30 restaurants over the south of the country and plans to build more over the coming years.UK

Happy Holidays have had their ups and downs recently. They provide holidays

all over the world for UK customers. The company owns a number of islands in the Pacific Ocean. The intention was

to offer exclusive ‘castaway’ island holidays, but these have not been as

popular as the company hoped.

glam

bags

A girl’sbest friend

Glam Bags produce bags and accessories for girls who like to party! They have had great success with their “Night Life” range a couple of years ago, but business has been a little slow since then.

woof meow Woof Meow are the ‘Rolls Royce’ of the pet grooming world with boutiques across the UK. They are very popular with wealthy customers including many celebrities.

Recently they have been a little concerned about the opening of a rival company Beauty Pooch who have a small number of boutiques across the south.

Star Insurance provides insurance for celebrities.

It insures the fingers of rock guitarists, the voices of singers and the good looks of models.

Recently Star Insurance provided insurance for bass player ‘Billy Strings’ – they will payout £50m if he damages his fingers!

Banana Music is a record production company who

specialise in signing unknown bands and

bringing them to the public eye. They have signed several bands who have

gone on to become household names over the

last couple of years.

SMALL

TELCOSmall Telco have been providing a telephone service to the small town of Bridgehampton for over 30 years.

Advances in telecommunications

have made it difficult for the

company to keep up with the large

telephone companies.

However, they have recently

experimented with producing a mobile

phone service using wifi wireless

networks across the town.

Fleet Street NewsFriday 21 April 2023L2

woof meow Rival pet grooming company Beauty Pooch have just announced they are opening 50 new grooming centres in towns occupied by woof meow. Experts believe that this will have a significant impact on woof meow’s share price.

BIG FUTURE FOR SMALL

TELCOAn opportunity for Small Telco to make it big looks promising as chairman Sir Tony Ring signs deal with international telecoms giant Intercontinental Communications. Shareholders are delighted.(read more on page 2)

Fleet Street NewsFriday 21 April 2023L3

Banana Music’s recent signing 20-pence is having a negative effect on the share price as rival rapper Piff Doody makes claims that lyrics have been stolen. The company’s chairman has been called to appear in court to answer these claims.

BUNCH OF MISTAKES FOR BANANA MUSIC

High Street giants ‘Party Girl’ have shown much enthusiasm in Glam Bags latest range of accessories. The ‘Bling Zing’ bags, necklaces and bangles have breathed new life into this failing fashion company.

GLAM BAGS PLEASE

SHAREHOLDERS

Fleet Street NewsFriday 21 April 2023L4

A range of islands in the Pacific Ocean have been owned by Happy Holidays for several years. Until this week they have not attracted a single holiday maker. Thanks to the blockbuster ‘Pacific Romance’ hundreds people are now arranging holidays on the islands. Happy Holidays really are ‘happy’ as this new interest in the islands is due to bring great wealth to the company.

FILM LOCATION BECOMES LATEST

HOLIDAY DESTINATION

BILLY STRINGS BREAKS FINGERS

Following a fight outside a club on Saturday night Billy (continued page 5)

Fleet Street NewsFriday 21 April 2023L5

An insider at Apricot Music (the producers of the latest Piff Doody album) has leaked emails that outline a plot to discredit Banana Music. The legal action against Banana has been dropped. This change in Banana’s fortune is having a positive impact on their share price.

NEW TURN OF EVENTS FOR BANANA

PIZZA PIE FOOD POISONING

FIASCO

Dozens of diners were very ill yesterday

following an outbreak of food poisoning at one of their London restaurants. Calls have been made for all branches to be closed while the matter is investigated.

Fleet Street NewsFriday 21 April 2023L6

Irregularities discovered in Beauty Pooch’s accounts has put the firm into serious financial difficulty. Rivals ‘Woof Meow’ are set to buy a large part of the company making them the largest pet grooming company in the UK. This change in fortune will surely make Woof Meow’s shareholders look like the cats who got the cream.

BEAUTY POOCH MAKE A“DOG’S DINNER”

Fleet Street NewsFriday 21 April 2023L7

The share price of Happy Holidays is on the up yet again following treasure found buried on the beach of one of its Pacific Islands. A holiday maker was copying the

FURTHER GOOD FORTUNE FOR HAPPY HOLIDAYS

scene from ‘Pacific Romance’ in which the hero of the film digs for a lost engagement ring.

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The company’s signing 20-pence has hit the big time. Their latest album contains 12 songs all based upon their recent involvement in legal action with Apricot Music. It has gone down very well with the fans. Further more, talks are in place to turn

BANANAS ON THE UP

Choc Co are set to collapse follow the latest advertising campaign of US confectionary company Chuck’s Chocs. Could this be the end of the country’s love affair with British chocolate?

NATION PREFERS US CHOCOLATE

the recent events into a film. This success is sure to be good for shareholders.

Fleet Street NewsFriday 21 April 2023L9

SHARE HOLDERS’ SLICE OF PIE GETS SMALLER FOR FAST FOOD GIANTThe Pizza Pie Co. have still been unable to open any of its 30 restaurants following the recent outbreak of food poisoning. Things are looking very grim as the cause of the poisoning has still not been found. It seems that the company may have to close its doors for good. (continued on page 7)

Fleet Street NewsFriday 21 April 2023L10

The UK slice of the Pizza Pie company is having another change of fortune following an incident of food poisoning at one of its London restaurants. It now appears that there was no food poisoning at all and the customer just had an allergic reaction to one of the toppings on the ‘Fungus Flan’ pizza.

SUPREME TOPPINGS

Thousands of chocolate lovers are returning to Choc Co making it once again the ‘Nations Favourite’. Many had changed to the US “Chuck’s Choc” but have found that it does actually make you chuck. Things are good for Choc Co’s share holders.

CHUCK’S CHOC MAKES

YOU SICK

In addition, the new advertising campaign showing Billy Strings eating a guitar shaped pizza is a hit and is sure to bring many new customers through the doors.