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January 2014

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  • Epic Code:
  • RWS
  • Price:
  • 939p
Full year results to end September from patent translator RWS were boosted by the Inovia acquisition, which helped sales climb 12% to £77.4m (organic c.5%). Pretax profit came in £1m over our expectation when we profiled the company in June at £21m with adjusted eps of 38.6p. The engine room continues to be RWS' translation side (sales up 10% to £53.5m). RWS says that period saw it sign up more customers in China, Japan and the US. In particular, there was a high level of work from North American firms filing patents in China which kept its Beijing office busy. There was also a good chunk of translation work generated via Inovia, a provider of web-based international patent filing solutions, which was acquired in September. ...

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