Primary Recommendation

Spice Holdings - Outsourcing and niche telecom services

October 2004

Investing in shares may lose you all or some of your money. Past performance is no indication of future performance. Some of the shares recommended here may be small company shares, which can be relatively illiquid and hard to trade and this makes such shares more risky than other investments.

Investors often miss out on support service shares because they have a tendency to look boring in the short term. For example, there might seem to be no point in buying shares in Spice Holdings, which joined AIM last month, based on its core business of maintaining electricity substations, meter reading and drain cleaning. You could have said something similar about Mears when we first featured them in April '03. Since then, the shares have trebled and dramatically outperformed most other shares. Well run support service operations are very good at making incremental gains each year given the long term nature of most contracts. Meanwhile, Spice also has an unlikely jewel in the crown providing private mobile radio (PMR) products for the ...

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