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AssetCo

January 2010

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  • Epic Code:
  • ASTO
  • Price:
  • 69p
Reporting H1 results, Assetco has finally done the decent thing and thrown in the towel on its problematic vehicle assembly business. The group has treated this division, which recorded an  H1 10 loss of £1.6m, well up on the £0.5m loss in H1 09, as a discontinued business and intends to close it before March.On a continuing basis, Assetco recorded a pretax profit of £5.4m and eps of 5.9p, down from £6.6m and 7.4p a year earlier. But the first half last year included a one-off £1.8m new vehicle programme cost and stripping that out, the performance shows a brighter picture emerging for the core managed service but a fall on the specialist equipment side. The managed services side, which runs the outsourced asset m ...

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