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Spice Holdings

July 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.

  • Epic Code:
  • SPI
  • Price:
  • 263p
Spice has announced the acquisition of Breval Holdings, which specialises in the design, installation and maintenance of heating, ventilation and air-conditioning services for a range of commercial, industrial and public sector companies. Spice has paid £8.4m for Breval, which made an operating profit of £1.3m on turnover of £5.6m in the year ended 31 March 2006, so it was acquired inexpensively at a multiple of 6.2 times operating profit. Breval, which will form part of Spice’s Commercial Services division, will provide useful cross-selling opportunities across its existing client base. Interestingly, it also has a sideline in asbestos removal, which should generate plenty of new work from electricity sub-station ...

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