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Telecom Plus

June 2009

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  • Epic Code:
  • TEP
  • Price:
  • 275.25p
Customer growth at Telecom Plus, the UK's only fully integrated multi-utility provider, has continued to accelerate in Q4 with a further 22,160 customers added to deliver 281,000 customers by the year ended on 31 March. That compared to 19,082 customers and 14,741 in each of the previous two quarters.  Overall, helped by an increase in gas and electricity prices during the year to 31 March, this gave rise to an increase in turnover of 49% to £278m. Pretax profit was up 34% to £22.5m and eps by 37% to 24.2p.Average spend per customer now stands at £1,057, primarily reflecting the higher proportion of sales from supplying gas and electricity but gross margins fell from 19.3% to 18.6% as these services tend to be lower ...

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