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TRL - Record £21.3m order book

July 2005

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  • Epic Code:
  • TRL
  • Price:
  • 213p
TRL’s maiden results showed sales were up 38% to £22.1m. Pretax profit doubled to £3.2m and operating margin grew to 13.7% from 10.1%. Earnings on a 24% tax charge were 10.9p. Net cash was £8.9m.  There was quite a change in revenue mix and margin during the year. As expected, the Technology & Innovation side was the primary driver with sales up from £3.3m to £8.7m. In particular, there are three drivers to this business. First, whereas TRL would in the past undertake MoD development projects and then hand over design once a prototype had been made, it is now undertaking actual delivery of finished products itself. Most of the work is for military green boxes containing communication re ...

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