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Renew - Cash of £28m

December 2008

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  • Epic Code:
  • RNWH
  • Price:
  • 51p
Results were in line with reduced expectations set in last month's trading update when Renew said a slowdown in housing starts had impacted its land remediation business. But even so, the final results for the year to 30 September were ahead of last year. Sales were up 12% to £391m and pretax profit was up 28% to £9.5m. Earnings were however behind forecast due to pension related tax adjustments at 11.9p (23% tax). Renew's declared strategy is to focus on two distinct business streams - specialist engineering and specialist building. The specialist engineering arm supplies technical services for land remediation, nuclear decommissioning and contracting in the water sector; all three see work coming from long-term frameworks. Havin ...

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