Summit
SPECULATIVE BUY
25/07/2008
Days after announcing record losses, drug developer Summit has sealed a licensing deal worth up to $143m for one of its pre-clinical candidates.
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International engineering and design consultant Scott Wilson has hit the acquisition trail again, taking over bridges and ‘metro sector’ specialist Benaim in a transaction capped at £5.5m.
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Vantis
BUY
24/07/2008
Accountancy group Vantis has continued to grow its business, despite its shares having suffered in the market malaise, and is sanguine about prospects due to its defensive business mix.
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Recently recommended by
Growth Company Investor as a strong buy at 136.5p, shares in insurance software group SSP have soared on news the group is being taken over by US private equity group Hellman & Friedman.
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Kewill
ADD
22/07/2008
Originally backed by
Growth Company Investor at 57p in 2003, Kewill is a cannily managed concern whose growth prospects are linked to high levels of global trade and the rising regulatory pressures facing shippers.
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‘We are not a bag company’, insists the well-connected Kelvin Yau, chairman and chief executive of Chinese outfit PAQ, ‘we’re a brand company.’
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In today’s markets, resilient businesses with strong track records, astute management and highly defensive growth prospects are a must for investors. If the company is a market leader with expanding margins and bumper cash balances, so much the better.
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Immunodiagnostic Systems, the diagnostic testing kit concern originally backed by
Growth Company Investor at 100p, continues to deliver in style.
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Led by sector luminary and chief executive Ben Langdon, digital direct marketing group DMG is delivering in spite of the wider media spending pinch.
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Best of the Best (BotB), which attracts punters to its monthly spot-the-ball competition by showing off its sports car prizes in airport terminals, has met its reduced forecasts for the year to April.
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