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Dawson Holdings - Performing â€œat the upper end of expectationsâ€

March 2008

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Dawson has issued a trading update that said results for the fourmonths to 31 January are running at the â€œupper end ofexpectations.â€ A focus on costs appears to be delivering strongunderlying cash performance, with net debt just Â£2m higher than theequivalent period and that is after spending Â£9m on two acquisitions!Dawson News, which distributes magazines and papers to newsagents,has benefited from cost cuts and the integration of Tunbridge-based TCox, which has enabled the business to be reorganised on a regionalrather than branch basis. Elsewhere, progress at the three smaller logistics businessescontinues apace. Dawson Media Direct, which distributes newspapers andmagazines to airlines, has opened its Hong Kon ...

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