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Creston - Acquisition in Germany likely

July 2004

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Shares in Creston have recently been held back by the expiry of warrants issued at the time of Don Elgie's arrival at the group. The warrants, which have an exercise price of 131p, partly explain why market makers have been happy to pull back the shares to that level this month despite good results.  For the year to 31 March, including a five and a half month contribution from Nelson Bostock and a full year from EMO (four months last year), Creston reported pretax profit up 130% to £2.09m and earnings up 42% to 9p. Turnover increased by 58% to £29.5m. Marketing Science, providing quantitative and qualitative market research, grew sales by 16% to £9.4m with operating profit up 40% from the depressed le ...

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