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James Fisher - Buys Testconsult

August 2014

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Marine support services firm James Fisher has announced the acquisition of Testconsult, a market leading provider of monitoring, instrumentation and testing services and equipment for Â£8m. Testconsult will extend and complement the range of services provided by Fisherâ€™s Strainstall Monitoring business, which uses strain gauges and sensors to provide structural monitoring and load testing of bridges and offshore installations. Testconsultâ€™s EBITDA was Â£1.4m for the year ended 31 March 2014. Earlier Fisher announced that first quarter trading was in line with expectations. Offshore oil and specialist technical services both achieved good starts to the year and while the marine support business had a slow start many of the proj ...

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