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Spice

December 2007

Investing in shares may lose you all or some of your money. Past performance is no indication of future performance. Some of the shares recommended here may be small company shares, which can be relatively illiquid and hard to trade and this makes such shares more risky than other investments.

  • Epic Code:
  • SPI
  • Price:
  • 550p
In its pre close update for the six months to 28 October, Spicenoted that trading continued to be in line with expectations. Itslargest division, utility services, has seen good growth in volumes inelectricity, with the highlight being the award of its first overseascontract by AT&T with an anticipated turnover of £5m. Spice’ssmaller divisions also made steady progress, with telecoms, commercialservices and public services all performing as planned.  Meanwhile, the acquisition of Revenue Assurance Services (RAS) wasconcluded on 12 October and so there is no meaningful trading data onthis yet. Our view at the time  was that this is a very large,expensive and un-necessarily risky deal, for a company that hasexcelled ...

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