ソフトウェア dream 長，率いるs for market

By Patrick Hosking
Updated: 00:00 BST, 5 April 2002

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A TINY ソフトウェア mail order company 支援するd by former 基金 管理／経営 boss Carol Galley is joining the 株式市場 経由で the 引き継ぎ／買収 of a cash 爆撃する 商売／仕事.

Dream Direct is 支払う／賃金ing up to £2.3m in 株 and 貸付金 公式文書，認めるs for Willisham, 以前は the 農業 商売／仕事 歩哨 Farm ing, and raising £300,000 in a placing.

The 引き継ぎ／買収 gives Dream Direct an AIM quotation and 資本／首都 for 拡大 into TV shopping and a bricks-and-迫撃砲 shop. It gives Willisham a new home for its cash since pulling out of farming.

Dream Direct, 設立するd in 1997 by entrepreneur Robert Colquhoun and Ollie Vintcent, a former 投資 銀行業者 at HSBC, sells family ソフトウェア through 目録s in 国家の newspapers. 最高の，を越す 販売人s 含む ソフトウェア 許すing hobbyists to shunt engines on 事実上の Hornby trainsets, play Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? or 収集する their family trees.

Sales reached £2.7m in the nine months to December. The 顧客 database has grown from 84,000 to 165,000 in 11 months.

Multi-millionaire Galley, the former 長，率いる of Merrill Lynch 投資 経営者／支配人s known as the Ice Maiden, owns 4.8%. The 会社／堅い was 始める，決める up as an 企業 投資 計画／陰謀 to give 投資家s 税金 救済.

Willisham 株 dived 5p to 24 1/2p after it said a £511,000 貸付金 to a ポーランドの（人） farm may not be repaid. The 申し込む／申し出 is adjustable to 反映する this.