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Kentz

November 2008

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No sign of an acquisition yet but alongside its results for the six months to 30 June, Kentz said this should be expected in the "near term." Results themselves were good with sales up 34% to US$328.6m, of which the Middle East was the biggest market accounting for 67% of sales. Pretax profit lifted by 52% to US$16.8m and eps were up 20% to 11 cents.In the Middle East Kentz operates from Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Quatar and UAE and continues to see unprecedented levels of build activity particularly in large gas projects, refining, petrochemical plants but also for commercial and military infrastructure. This then explains the strong forward order book which at the end of June stood at US$698 but had improved to US$894m by the end of ...

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