Secondary Recommendation

Imagesound - Supplier of in-store profiled music in hunt for acquisitions

February 2005

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Faced with a mature and increasingly competitive retail marketplace,more and more chains are turning to new ways of winning customers and finding a point of differentiation from their rivals. Their solution could be AIM-listed tiddler, Imagesound, (market cap. Â£15.9m) which is one of the leading suppliers of background music, radio and TV servicesto the branded retail and leisure sectors. Imagesound was formed through the acquisition of three private companies for Â£15.1m by former quoted shell, Advanced Capital Invest, last August, a deal financed through a mixture of cash and a placing of new shares at 20p.Since then, the enlarged group has bedded down extremely well, encouraging house broker, Evolution Securities, to ...

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