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Homebuy - Sales of TVs to sub-prime customers seeing huge growth

January 2006

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.

The honey pot of providing outsourcing to the Government has made shares in some support service companies generate gains that most can only dream of and who will ever forget the likes of Serco, 296p and Capita, 392p, which have gained twenty-six fold and seventy-fold respectively since 1989. Identifying such firms at a relatively early stage is, of course, the key and one which has the potential to be a long-term winner is Mouchel Parkman, an outsourcer of engineering consultancy work, predominantly to the transport sector. Its credentials are best illustrated by the fact that in the last four years, turnover has increased 164% to £311m, operating profit has risen 260% to £23.4m and earnings have increased 173% to 15.3p. An ...

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Mouchel Parkman - Engineering consultant benefiting from outsourcing

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