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Hercules Property - Prospective PE of 7.2

June 2004

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Hercules has announced that it is folding Deacon (the supplier of insurance for flats) into its Cadogan commercial property insurance division. The two accounted for 40%  of divisional profit at the interim stage. Farr, the specialist in the social housing sector, accounted for the remaining 60%.  The merger will facilitate the cross generation of business leads and enable duplicated overheads to be stripped out. The timing is good as both divisions are about to enter their quieter part of the year so the move should not be too disruptive. Separately, Hercules also reported good news for its commercial property agency business Dunlop Heywood Lorenz. The business, which had a tricky first half as a result of a cyclically ...

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