JD Wetherspoon’s wandering founder Tim Martin returns from a six-month sabbatical this week to present the pub chain’s interim results.
Pre-tax profits are likely to rise from £25.6m to about £27m.
Williams de Broe says what Martin says will influence whether or not it returns the stock from its “hold” list to “buy”.
The Independent on Sunday (Business) 29/02/04 page 4 (The Week Ahead)
