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Electric Word

March 2008

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Having been growing at a snails pace in the early years, the pasttwo years have seen the tempo quicken with Electric Word making anumber of larger acquisitions. Overall, for the year to 30 Novemberturnover was up 25% to Â£13.5m and adjusted pretax profit was up 41% toÂ£1.4m, with the growth split almost equally between a full yearcontribution from the acquisition of Incentive Plus and organic growth.Earnings lifted 36% to 0.87p. Period end debt was just under Â£1m. In terms of divisional performance, FY07 showed two thirds of salesfrom education publishing, where Electic Word supplies specialistreports, circulations, events and magazines to school teachers,managers, special needs and speech therapy professionals. During theyear, E ...

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