Primary Recommendation

Claimar Care - Moves squarely into complex care

November 2007

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Claimar Care offers a range of domiciliary care services, providingcare for people in their own homes, particularly the elderly or thosewith a physical disability, as an alternative to the more drasticoption of a residential care home. The company is in a red hot phase ofgrowth with this year's full year results (to end September '08)expected to show pretax profit up 160% to Â£5.8m on sales up 150% toÂ£56.6m. The longer-term record is impressive too with sales up from justÂ£250,000 in 1999, when the young Mark Hales, then aged 29, took over afamily business, which operated a single branch in Birmingham. But eventhese impressive forecasts could be just the beginning as the recentacquisition of Complete Care has not only virtually d ...

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