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Vertu Motors - Consolidator in motor retail sector

January 2007

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  • Epic Code:
  • VTU
  • Price:
  • 77p
Vertu Motors (VTU; 77p) floated just before Christmas in order to consolidate the UK motor retailing sector. The company was only established three months earlier as a cash shell and has yet to complete its first acquisition but the shares have already met with a strong reception from investors, with Vertu raising £24m after costs via a placing at 60p by Brewin Dolphin, against earlier expectations of raising between £5m and £15m. The key attraction for investors is that Vertu comes with a highly experienced management team. Of its four founding shareholders, two have joined the board and the other two will join as acquisitions are concluded. Chief executive Robert Forrester, aged 37, was finance director of the ...

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