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NSB Retail - Trading update

February 2006

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Ahead of reporting results on 14 March, NSB has issued a trading update. This said it expects to report an operating profit for the year to 31 December of at least £9.3m (before exceptionals) which should equate to eps of around 2.2p. The exceptionals should relate to some redundancies to improve the revenue-per-head ratio, a provision to cover surplus property as well as a pension related charge. Trading wise, Q4 saw “a number of significant contract wins” with the software order intake in 2005 being more than 20% ahead of 2004. In addition, NSB has signed three new managed services deals in Q4 making it five for the year. The exclusive UK distributor, BT, also performed well and has recently signed a c ...

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