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Parkwood - Order book now £154m

April 2002

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  • PKW
As we half suspected, Parkwood beat its forecast for the year ended December 2001.  Pretax profit was £1.45m on sales up 8% to £40.9m,while earnings came in at 5.3p.  No more news on new PFI contracts to report, but the order book is still up from £132m in June to £154m now, reflecting those new wins in January. Parkwood operates through two divisions, the largest being  Glendale Managed Services.  Glendale runs two operations, predominantly for local authority clients,  comprising grounds management, such asamenity horticulture services and  the management of leisure centre facilities.Broker, Beeson Gregory, has left forecasts unchanged for now,  at 5.5p and 6.1p for 2002 and 2003.  The broker believes  that there remains a yawni ...

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