Small caps round-up: YouGov, Sareum and InterQuest...
7th Aug 2012 11:25
Environmental Recycling Technologies, which owns the rights to the Powder Impression Moulding (PIM) process which is capable of converting mixed waste plastics into commercially viable products, has confirmed that its US parent application, entitled 'Process for Forming Plastic, Apparatuses for Form
Read moreBodycote CEO ditches chunk of shares
8th May 2012 16:16
Stephen Harris, who has held the role of Chief Executive Officer at FTSE 250 heat treatment firm Bodycote for over three years, sliced off a sizeable chunk of his shares on May 4th. Harris, who has also been a director of Spectris, ditched 94,000 shares at 421.00p each, earning himself the handsom
Read moreIT recruitment picking up says InterQuest
27th May 2011 11:12
Specialist IT recruitment firm, InterQuest, said its market was strengthening, with the number of contractors it had placed increasing by 4% since early January. The company said it was seeing signs the public sector had now stabilised while growth continued in its financial services focused busine
Read moreInterQuest looks forward to 2011
8th Mar 2011 18:41
IT staff recruiter InterQuest Group says there is much more visibility to its business than there was in the middle of 2011. AIM-quoted InterQuest continued to trade strongly in the second half of 2010 even though it was cautious at the interim stage. Financial services customers are spending mo
Read moreSmall caps round-up: InterQuest, San Leon, Horizonte Minerals...
4th Feb 2011 08:22
IT recruitment group Interquest traded in line with expectations in 2010 as strength in financial services offset a drop-off in public sector business. Ahead of results out on 8 March, executive chairman Gary Ashworth said it has remained profitable through the downturn. "While we have, as anticip
Read moreFriday tips round-up: LSE, Petrofac...
24th Dec 2010 06:43
The pending merger of Bats Global Markets of the US and Chi-X looks like the end of an interesting if, with the benefit of hindsight, doomed experiment. The question now is what effect will it have on the LSE's revenues to have one real rival, with a market share of maybe a third in FTSE 100 stocks,
Read moreLuke Johnson cuts ties with InterQuest
23rd Dec 2010 11:52
Entrepreneur Luke Johnson has left IT recruiter InterQuest's board and he has sold his stake in the AIM-quoted company. Johnson's 3.03m shares (9.7% of the company) were placed at an average price of 53p a share. Jim Mellon bought 1.82m of these shares giving him a 5.8% stake. InterQuest raised £
Read moreSmall caps round-up: ILA, Indus Gas, Minera...
15th Sep 2010 11:42
ILA, which makes personal alarms for women, has won two big orders, one from the department store House of Fraser and one from the Canadian book retailer Indigo Books. But the shares are down nearly 9%. Losses widened at Indus Gas in the year to March 31, but the India-focused oil and gas group has
Read moreSmall caps: Silence Therapeutics, Eros, Interquest,...
14th Jul 2010 14:01
Silence Therapeutics has agreed a one-year extension of its ongoing research and development collaboration with AstraZeneca. The pair are working on five therapeutic molecules addressing respiratory and oncology indications. Film distributor Eros traded well in the second half of the financial year
Read moreMARKET TALK: Merchant Securities Keeps InterQuest Buy Rating
14th Jul 2010 09:34
0834 GMT [Dow Jones] Merchant Securities keeps a buy rating on IT staffing firm InterQuest Group (ITQ.LN) following strong trading in the first quarter of 2010. Says the public sector accounts for 21% of group net fee income against 29% last year. Reckons a stronger private sector is offsetting any
Read moreInterQuest Group 1H Net Fee Income Up 14% On Comparable
14th Jul 2010 07:21
LONDON (Dow Jones)--InterQuest Group PLC (ITQ.LN), an IT staffing specialist, announced Wednesday for the half year ended Jun. 30, that continued strengthening of trading through 1Q into 2Q means group net fee income in first half of 2010 was 14% higher than the first half of 2009:- MAIN FACTS:
Read moreInterQuest Group Buys Back 1.0M Shares At 55P Each
30th Jun 2010 10:29
LONDON (Dow Jones)--InterQuest Group PLC (ITQ.LN) said Wednesday it purchased for cancellation 1,000,000 ordinary shares at 55 pence per share. -Shares at 0928 GMT down 0.5 pence, or 0.9%, at 56.5 pence. -By Iain Packham, Dow Jones Newswires; 44-20-7842-9269; [email protected]
Read moreInterQuest pre-tax profit slumps 55%
15th Sep 2009 08:23
Specialist IT recruitment firm InterQuest posted a 55% plunge in half year pre-tax profit as it battles against the economic downturn. Profit before taxation fell to £913,000 for the six months ended 30 June from £2m the same time a year before. Revenue fell 8% to £49.21m. Commenting on trading In
Read more