ECKOH wins renewal contract worth half a million
8th Aug 2011 07:50
Eckoh, the speech recognition specialist, has been awarded a two-year contract worth £0.5m with a leading UK logistics organisation. The contract, which is with an existing customer, is for the provision of automated tracking and redelivery services. The service, launched in April 2006, allows cu
Read moreEckoh recommends maiden divi, losses widen
6th Jun 2011 07:18
Speech recognition specialist Eckoh said full year pre-tax losses widened as it recommends its first dividend payment and announced a new contract with NIE Energy to develop a smartphone application. The group, which underwent a massive reorganisation to focus solely on its speech recognition solu
Read moreAnglo American boss digs deep again
28th Feb 2011 17:57
Anglo-American's chairman Sir John Parker has added to his stake in the company again with the purchase of nearly £100,000 in shares. He bought 2,890 at 3,282.5p a time. Last week he bought 3,000 at 3,238p each. Anglo American announced earlier this month that it is merging its UK cement, aggregat
Read moreSalamander bosses gobble up shares
14th Jan 2011 17:19
Directors at the Asia-focused oil group Salamander Energy have spent a combined total of more than £500,000 on shares in the company. Chairman Charles Jamieson took 75,000 shares at 276.2p a time, while non-executive directors Robert Cathery and Michael Pavia took 100,000 at 272.8p and 10,000 at 27
Read moreSmall caps round-up: Eckoh, Manroy, Ortac...
22nd Dec 2010 10:08
Speech recognition specialist Eckoh has secured a three-year contract with hotel and restaurant giant Whitbread, making it one of the group's largest clients to date. Eckoh will provide its payment card industry data security standard service to Whitbread's hotel brand Premier Inn, which is due to
Read moreRound-up: Kingspan, JKX, Ocean Wilson...
15th Nov 2010 14:38
Insulation board specialist Kingspan expects operating profits this year to come in little changed, even though sales picked up in the last three months. Group turnover in the 9 months to 30 September was €865m, up 6% year on year, with third quarter sales up 15%. The UK and Europe outside Ireland
Read moreSmall caps round-up: Agriterra, Cohort, GB...
18th Oct 2010 11:34
Agriterra, focussed on the agricultural sector in central and southern Africa, is making "fantastic" progress, announcing record buying and sales of maize in Mozambique. Sales soared 174% in May, they were up 208% in June, 149% in July and have more than doubled in August and September. Milling ope
Read moreSmall caps: Condor, Mariana, Eckoh...
6th Sep 2010 13:57
Shares in Condor Resources took off after the Central American gold explorer announced a swap of mining rights in Nicaragua with gold producer B2Gold. The swap will result in Condor becoming the biggest concession holder in Nicaragua's La India mining district, it said. Elsewhere in Latin American
Read moreUK SMALLCAP ROUNDUP: Connaught Plunges On Funding Warning
26th Jul 2010 09:30
Dow Jones smallcap news is now on Twitter, allowing you to catch up on the news away from your desk. Go to http://twitter.com/DJ_UK_Smallcaps CONNAUGHT PLC (CNT.LN), a support services firm, warned it will breach its banking covenants when its fiscal year ends Aug. 31 and its year-end net debt
Read moreEckoh Renews Contract With Enterprise Rent-A-Car
26th Jul 2010 07:34
LONDON (Dow Jones)--Voice recognition specialist Eckoh PLC (ECK.LN) Monday said it has renewed a contract to provide its speech-enabled locator service to customers of car hire firm Enterprise Rent-A-Car. Eckoh didn't give any financial details of the deal and didn't say by how long the contract
Read moreEckoh: Ideal Shopping Direct Extends Contract By 2 Years
12th Jul 2010 08:05
LONDON (Dow Jones)--Eckoh PLC (ECK.LN), a developer of speech recognition solutions for customer contact centers, said Monday that Ideal Shopping Direct, or ISD, a leading digital retailer, has extended its contract for a further two-year period up to October 2013. MAIN FACTS: -ISD were one
Read moreUK SMALLCAP ROUNDUP: Eckoh Sees Return To 1H 2011 Profit
21st Jun 2010 16:00
Dow Jones smallcap news is now on Twitter, allowing you to catch up on the news away from your desk. Go to http://twitter.com/DJ_UK_Smallcaps ECKOH PLC (ECK.LN), a voice recognition specialist, expects to return to a profit in the first half of fiscal 2011 after posting a narrowed pretax loss f
Read moreUPDATE: Eckoh Sees Return To Profit For 1H 2011
21st Jun 2010 09:42
(Rewrites, adds CEO, CFO interview.) By Tommy Stubbington Of DOW JONES NEWSWIRES LONDON (Dow Jones)--Voice recognition specialist Eckoh PLC (ECK.LN) said Monday it expects to return to profit in the first half of fiscal 2011 after posting a narrowed pretax loss for the full year ended Ma
Read moreEckoh narrows FY losses
21st Jun 2010 07:59
Speech recognition specialist Eckoh said it narrowed full year pre-tax losses as it reported an adjusted pre-tax profit. Chief executive officer Nik Philpot said, "Despite the backdrop of continuing economic uncertainty, Eckoh has been able to build on the good progress we made last year and delive
Read moreEckoh FY Pretax Loss Narrows, Moves To Adjusted Pretax Profit
21st Jun 2010 07:20
LONDON (Dow Jones)--Eckoh PLC (ECK.LN), a developer of speech recognition solutions for customer contact centers, Monday reported narrowed full year pretax loss and said it moved to an adjusted pretax profit. MAIN FACTS: -Turnover for the year ended March 31 GBP7.92 million (2009: GBP6.67 m
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