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Maxima

October 2009

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New management led by CEO Graham Kingsmill (ex-head of SAP UK), who joined in April, reported their first results last month with revenues up 20% to Â£56.6m largely as a result of the acquisition of DXI Networks last year. The results included Â£12.6m of write downs and provisions as the group positioned itself for a fresh start and excluding these, normalised pretax profit was Â£7m (eps 20.5p) down from Â£8.8m last year largely due to some projects being deferred.Maxima is a consolidation play of companies involved in the implementation and support of enterprise software solutions for mid sized, UK-based manufacturing, distribution and service organisations. Having floated in 2004 it completed 11 acquisitions under its previous m ...

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