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Alterian

February 2008

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Alterian has issued a Q3 trading update showing accelerating growthover the prior year period. Just to recap, overall growth at theinterim stage was 27% but the latest statement shows it growing by 48%in Q3, helped by a doubling of North American sales whilst the UK sidegrew 17%.North America continues to be driven by the Marketing Agenciesrecently signed as its distribution partners. The groupâ€™s onlinemarketing platform has also had material success in both the US andEurope. Altium's forecast is for eps of 10.4p for the year to 31 March, although Q4 is clearly a big quarter, rising to 17.4p next year.Alterian has spent the last five years growing into its valuationbut based on the forecast for the year starting in ...

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