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Utilitywise - Record new customer growth in March

June 2015

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  • Epic Code:
  • UTW
  • Price:
  • 243p
Utilitywise, a leading utility energy consultancy, which procures preferential rates from all the major energy suppliers on behalf of companies, produced strong interims with revenues, pretax profit and eps rising 42%, 49% and 41% respectively to £29.9m, £7.3m and 7.2p.Within its enterprise division, which services SMEs, gross profit rose 51% to £10.6m, while the smaller corporates (larger companies) side increased profits 43% to £2.9m.Helped by a successful move to a larger headquarters last November the number of fee earning consultants (a proxy for future growth) rose 29% to 449 while total customers increased 23% to 22,048. However, most of these were recruited towards the end of the period, which ...

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