Share Trading Game
M Sims – Version 1.0
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.
UK
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.
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 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.
A girl’s
best friend
glam
bags
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 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.
L2
Wednesday, 13 July 2016
Fleet Street News
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
TELCO
An 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)
L3
Wednesday, 13 July 2016
Fleet Street News
BUNCH OF MISTAKES
FOR BANANA MUSIC
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.
GLAM BAGS
PLEASE
SHAREHOLDERS
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.
L4
Wednesday, 13 July 2016
Fleet Street News
BILLY STRINGS
BREAKS FINGERS
FILM LOCATION
BECOMES LATEST
HOLIDAY DESTINATION
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
Following
a
fight now arranging holidays on the islands.
outside a club on Happy Holidays really are ‘happy’ as
Saturday night Billy
this new interest in the islands is due
(continued page 5)
to bring great wealth to the company.
L5
Wednesday, 13 July 2016
Fleet Street News
NEW TURN OF EVENTS
FOR BANANA
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.
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.
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Wednesday, 13 July 2016
Fleet Street News
BEAUTY POOCH MAKE A
“DOG’S DINNER”
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.
L7
Wednesday, 13 July 2016
Fleet Street News
FURTHER GOOD FORTUNE
FOR HAPPY HOLIDAYS
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
scene
from
‘Pacific Romance’
in which the hero
of the film digs
for
a
lost
engagement ring.
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Wednesday, 13 July 2016
Fleet Street News
BANANAS ON THE UP
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
the
recent
events into a
film.
This
success is sure
to be good for
shareholders.
NATION
PREFERS US
CHOCOLATE
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?
L9
Wednesday, 13 July 2016
Fleet Street News
SHARE HOLDERS’ SLICE
OF PIE GETS SMALLER
FOR FAST FOOD GIANT
The 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)
L10
Wednesday, 13 July 2016
Fleet Street News
SUPREME TOPPINGS
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.
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.
CHUCK’S
CHOC MAKES
YOU SICK
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.