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Hargreaves Services

June 2008

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:
  • HSP
  • Price:
  • 598p
Hargreaves Services, the supplier of support services to the energy and minerals sectors, has announced that Coal4energy, its joint venture with UK Coal, 521p, has acquired a majority share in Maxibrite for £4.7m. South Wales-based Maxibrite is a leading manufacturer of solid fuel and produces 60,000 tonnes of quality smokeless fuel briquettes for the domestic markets in the UK, Eire and France. Based on unaudited management accounts in the 12 months ended 31 March, Maxibrite made a net profit of £0.75m on revenue of £7.5m. That implies an exit PE of just over 6 so the deal is clearly eps enhancing. The shares remain a core portfolio holding. ...

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