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SMC - Attractive ground floor opportunity

September 2005

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Stewart McColl is an expert in building up architectural businesses. In 1988, he sold the interior design/architectural business he had built up since 1974 to WPP for £32.5m. But WPP subsequently liquidated that business in the recession that followed and with most of the consideration contingent on performance, McColl had made and lost his first fortune. SMC Group (SMC; 45p) is his new business which carries his name and was established in 1997 as a holding company for a group of chartered architects and designers. It was established with the objective of creating an architectural group (including interior design, graphic design and product design) through a combination of acquisitive and organic growth – essentially ...

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