Secondary Recommendation

Zetar - New shell from Augean backers

February 2005

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.

Fresh from securing two excellent acquisitions in the red hot landfill sector for their AIM shell, Augean, which was the subject of our front page write-up last month, talismanic deal makers David Williams and Mark Watts have just introduced a brand new shell, Zetar, to the market. After 750,000 shares were placed at 100p on 6 January, raising just Â£675,000 net of expenses and valuing the company at Â£775,000, Zetar made an electrifying debut and is now 158% above its placing price. Investors clearly believe that Williams and Watts, who along with chief executive, Ian Blackburn, have between them subscribedfor nearly 35% of the share capital, are hungry enough to build up Zetar into another substantial business. Wh ...

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