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FINANCIAL BRIEF: For the six months ended 30 September 2012, Creston plc revenues increased 2% to L37.2M. Net income increased from L2.8M to L8.3M. Revenues reflect Health segment increase of 38% to L11M, Rest of the World segment increase of 84% to L7.6M. Net income benefited from Acquisition, start-up and restructuring- decrease from L300K (expense) to L0K, Finance Income/Expense decrease of 94% to L12K (expense). Dividend per share remained flat at L0.01. more »

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31st Mar 2013
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Price Target: 94.3p (+4.81% above Price) Net Profit EPS DPS Net Profit EPS DPS
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No. of Analysts: 0 0 1 0 1

Named Brokers and Analysts
Investec Bank (UK) Plc , Panmure Gordon , Charles Stanley Securities Richard Nunn , Evolution Securities (Hist) , N+1 Singer Johnathan Barrett , Liberum Capital Ian Whittaker , XCAP Securities Tim Freeborn ,

Creston Plc is engaged in insight and communications services. The Company operates in three divisions: Communications division, which offers clients an integrated approach to their marketing and communication strategy, offering a range of services, which include advertising, brand strategy, channel marketing, customer relationship marketing, digital marketing, direct marketing, local marketing, social media marketing and public relations; Health division, which provides an integrated communications solution to the healthcare and pharmaceutical sector and offers services, which include advertising, advocacy, digital and direct marketing, public relations, issues and reputation management and medical education; Insight division, which performs a range of market research services on behalf of its clients, through both qualitative and quantitative means, using face-to-face, telephone and online data collection techniques. On November, 30, 2011, it acquired The Corkery Group.

Directors: Don Elgie (CEO) , Barrie Brien (CFO) , Tim Bonnet (Corp. Exec.) , Martin Bostock (Corp. Exec.) , Keith Bates (Other) , Catherine Warne (Other) ,

No. of Employees: 868 No. of Shareholders: n/a


Last Annual March 31st, 2012
Last Interim September 30th, 2012
Shares in Issue 60,463,298
Free Float 46.0m (76.0%)
Sector Consumer Cyclicals
Industry Media & Publishing
Index FTSE Fledgling , FTSE Fledgling XIT,
Exchange London Stock Exchange (Full)
Eligible for an ISA? a SIPP?

Address 16 Charles II Street, LONDON, SW1Y 4QU, United Kingdom
Web http://www.creston.com
Phone +44 20 79309757
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Registrar Capita Registrars Limited (Huddersfield)
Auditors PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP

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LATEST CRE NEWS ANNOUNCEMENTS (delayed)

UPCOMING CRE EVENTS
Wednesday 12th June, 2013
Preliminary 2012 Creston PLC Earnings Release
Tuesday 27th August, 2013 (estimate)
Creston PLC Annual General Meeting
Monday 25th November, 2013 (estimate)
Interim 2013 Creston PLC Earnings Release

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Monday 22nd April, 2013
Creston PLC Trading Statement
Monday 4th February, 2013
Creston PLC Q3 Interim Management Statement
Wednesday 5th December, 2012
Dividend For CRE.L
Wednesday 28th November, 2012
Interim 2012 Creston PLC Earnings Presentation (London)
Wednesday 28th November, 2012
Interim 2012 Creston PLC Earnings Release
Monday 8th October, 2012
Creston PLC Investor and Analyst Presentation (London)
Monday 3rd September, 2012
Creston PLC Annual General Meeting
Wednesday 1st August, 2012
Dividend For CRE.L
Tuesday 31st July, 2012
Creston PLC Interim Management Statement
Wednesday 13th June, 2012
Preliminary 2011 Creston PLC Earnings Presentation (London)


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