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Office2office - Take profits and sell

May 2006

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Final results from office products supplier Office2office contained few surprises following its pre-close trading statement but were reasonably good nonetheless. For the year ended 31 December, pretax profit before its float costs increased 4.8% to £10.7m, on a 6% rise in turnover to £151m. Earnings increased 18% to 19.7p, while net cash was £5.1m. Highlights in the period included the successful re-tender of two of its largest contracts with Barclays Bank and the Department of Work & Pensions. The group also made progress developing its e-commerce systems with the result that over 57% of customer orders were received electronically, compared to 48% last time. However, there were also a couple of neg ...

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