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标题：INVESTORS DOTTY OVER LASTMINUTE
作者：JAMES MACLEAN
期刊名称：London Evening Standard
印刷版ISSN：2041-4404
出版年度：2000
卷号：Mar 14, 2000
出版社：Associated Newspaper Ltd.

INVESTORS DOTTY OVER LASTMINUTE

JAMES MACLEAN

SHARES in lastminute.com start trading in London today in one of the most hotly awaited share debuts since British Gas and British Telecom were privatised in the Eighties.

Amidst a frenzy for .com shares on both sides of the Atlantic the flotation of the loss-making internet travel company is set to make multimillionaires of the company's founders, Martha Lane Fox, 27, and Brent Hoberman, 31.

The application has been more than 20 times oversubscribed and brokers are expecting the shares to show hefty gains above a 380p offer price.

Latest indications suggest they will be trading at about 550p.

It would mean the company, which had total revenues of 409,000 in its last quarter, was valued at 800million. Allocations for small investors were cut to only 35 shares each.