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December 2012

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As previously flagged Abcam, an online retailer of biological tools known as antibodies to help researchers find the cure for cancer and other diseases, had a strong year. Revenues rose 17.5% to almost Â£98m and pretax profit 21% to Â£39m, while eps was up 19% to 15.6p. Net cash was lower at Â£17.5m (2011: Â£55.6m). This reflected the acquisition of Epitomics, a high growth protein reagents business focused on the development of rabbit monoclonal antibodies and Ascent Scientific, which provides biochemical reagents. Abcam's product catalogue grew 25% to 92,456 while it achieved sales growth in every region: The US was up 18% to almost Â£41m, Japan 25% to Â£11.3m with Germany (+14% to Â£7.3m) and UK (+13% to Â£7.1m) also doi ...

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