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James Fisher - Cable laying activity finally ditched

April 2006

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Marine support services group James Fisher (FSJl; 498p) is an old friend to Sharewatch. Over the month, we revisited chairman Tim Harris after the group reported another set of results nicely ahead of expectations. Against a market forecast of £15.1m, the group delivered a pretax profit of £15.7m. The year was one of transformation for Fisher. The group’s marine support services businesses, that are its mainstay, performed so well that with profit on continuing operations being up by 32% to £10.7m on sales of £91m, Harris was confident enough to do a kitchen sink job on the non-core cable laying business. One cable laying ship was sold in the year and the other has been savagely written down and desc ...

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James Fisher - Cable laying activity finally ditched

April 2006

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