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Photo-Me - Our favourite NAP for 2003

February 2003

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  • PHTM
After suffering the shame of a 90% drop in underlying pretax profit last year, Photo-Me recently issued a set of interim results suggestinga bright future is around the corner.   Photo-Meoperates 20,000 photobooths and 5,000 other coin operated vendingmachines around the world and manufactures these, along with digitalminilabs, at  Grenoble in France.  The group has developed areputation as being cash hungry  after spending £186m in thelast  five years  to convert  its estate of photobooths  from analogue to digital.  This took net debt upto £51.4m (gearing: 84%), which unnerved investors to such an extent that the shares plunged to 15p at one point earlier this year, befor ...

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