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Empresaria

September 2016

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Another sound half year to end June from the international staffing group, which operates multiple brands. Sales and pretax profit were both up by 15% to £106.1m and £3.1m, respectively. Eps were up 6% to 3.4p as a greater share of profits came from jurisdictions with high tax rates.Overall, Empresaria has now recorded 12 consecutive quarters of growing its net fee income, with this period seeing a 13% increase to £27.3m. Conversion of net financial income (NFI) to operating profit was 14.8%, a fifth year of increase, helped by the inclusion of Pharmaceutical Strategies (PS).The UK business saw static NFI at £9.2m and a drop in conversion due to higher costs. CEO Joost Kreulen said hiring decisions in ...

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