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PM Group - Councils defer orders ahead of election

April 2005

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  • Epic Code:
  • PGP
  • Price:
  • 162.5p
Sales in the six months to 31 December were up 7% to £7.8m but with a higher proportion arising from sales of refuse bins, pretax profit fell from £425,000 to £335,000. The decline in profit compared to earlier expectations was almost entirely due to a shortfall in the Binweigh division which had sales of £5m (64% of the total). First, the division has moved to supplying councils on a one stop shop basis where PM supplies not only the load cell technology for dynamic weighing of a refuse bin, but also frequency transponders or electronic tags for identifying households as well as the bins themselves. During the period, sales of bins were £1.8m which distorted the mix/margin compared to the year before and gr ...

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