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Electric Word

July 2006

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Electric Word has acquired the assets of CKP, a publisher of teacher resources, from one of its directors, for £137,000, mostly in shares. In the year to 30 June 2005, CKP broke even on sales of £121,000. Ahead of interim results on 21 August, Electric Word also said that H1 trading is in line with expectations with the two other acquisitions of SportBusiness and Incentive Plus providing a strong platform for continued growth. Panmure's latest forecasts are for £815,000 pretax and eps of 0.5p for the year to 30 November, with £1.3m and 0.8p next year. Keep holding. * The writer has a shareholding ...

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