Primary Recommendation

AssetCo - New bid opportunities in 2008

January 2008

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Shares in AssetCo, which provides outsourced asset management fortwo of the UKâ€™s 59 fire and rescue authorities, have raced away sincethe business was reversed into the much smaller Asfare, a supplier ofladders and other fire equipment.The pace of outsourcing has been slow to date with a long gapbetween the first two contracts (London 2001 and Lincoln 2006) but withsuch a large chunk of the market wide open for exploitation, we seethis business becoming much bigger. Focus on the Fire and Rescue marketsAssetCo had its origins in a British Gas subsidiary established in 1995to independently manage the gas companyâ€™s fleet of small vans used byits service engineers and the bu ...

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