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Report and Accounts 2006
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Trading Highlights
- Solid growth and development – both profit and service offering
- Turnover up 9% to £17,781,897 (2005: £16,375,097)
- Gross profit up 25% to £3,746,790 (2005: £3,008,194)
- Increased gross margins to 21% (2005: 18%)
- 28% increase in operating profit before goodwill amortisation to £1,479,827 (2005: £1,155,443)
- Proposed dividend of 0.11p per share (2005: 0.1p)
- Successfully adopted new licensing requirements
- Integrated three trading companies into one to become a total
security solutions provider
- Completed acquisition of the business contracts of Oakpark Alarms
- Continue to look for earnings enhancing acquisition opportunities
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Annual
Report and Accounts 2005
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Trading Highlights
- Focused on developing the geographical spread of the business and
range of services to become a total security solutions group
- Solid growth achieved during the year with turnover up 17% to
£16,375,000 (2004: £14,049,000) and gross profit up 10% to
£3,008,000 (2004: £2,731,000)
- Cash balance at year end £940,000 (2004: £258,000) and net assets
of £8,169,000 (2004: £4,692,000)
- Dividend doubled to 0.1p per share
- Expanding shareholder base with a significant number of new
institutional investors
- Continued growth organically with significant contracts won in key
target areas and by acquisition with four acquisitions completed in the
year
- Anticipate being one of the first companies to achieve SIA’s Approved
Contractor status
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Annual
Report and Accounts 2004
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Trading Highlights
- Turnover up 10.2% to £14.0 million (2003: £12.8 million)
- Gross profit up 11.5% to £2.7 million (2003: £2.4 million)
- Operating profit before goodwill amortisation
up 18.3% to £1.2 million (2003: £1.0 million)
- Net assets up by 15.9% to £4.7 million (2003: £4.0 million)
- Maiden dividend proposed of 0.05p per share
- Successful acquisition of the mobile patrol, keyholding and
alarm response business of Abbott Security Services Limited
- Two further acquisitions since the year end
- Further new contracts won within the education, not for profit
and local authority sectors, building on last year’s success
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Annual
Report and Accounts 2003
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Trading Highlights
- Turnover up 73% to £12,752,659 (2002: £7,373,705)
- Operating profit before goodwill amortisation and impairment
up 47% to £1,010,519 (2002: £686,127)
- Cash at bank at year-end up 247% to £835,868 (2002: £241,096)
- Four successful acquisitions
- New contracts won within education sector
- Well positioned to take advantage of future opportunities
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Annual
Report and Accounts 2002
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Trading Highlights
- Turnover up 72% to £7.3m
- Operating profit up 228% to £595,000
- Earnings per share up 400% to 0.4p
- Acquisition of guarding contracts of Olympic Security
Services in June increased turnover by 60%
- New contracts won include the Hadley Wood Residents
Association vigilance patrol
- Acquisition of guarding contracts of Gainsborough Events & Security
Services in January increasing turnover by 10%
- In advanced talks with a number of potential strategic
acquisitions
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