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ITE - Acquistion triggers another surge

February 2011

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  • Epic Code:
  • ITE
  • Price:
  • 234p
Shares in ITE spiked to a new high of 252p after it announced the Eu33m cash acquisition of MVK, Moscow's third largest exhibitions business. The exit multiple was a relatively modest 6x EBITDA and brings in a portfolio of 20 events with sales volumes of over 55,000 sq. metres. The largest events serve the furniture, packaging, pumps and woodworking industries but MVK is also involved in smaller events in the industrial sector, such as wood building, welding, labels, cables and similar technical events. Usefully, its larger biennial events fall into even years, which complements ITE's existing bias to odd years. Numis has upgraded pretax profit by £2m to £45m (eps: 14.1p) with next year's profit upped £3.5m to £48m (15.1p). Th ...

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