Creston (CRE)
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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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BROKER CONSENSUS & FORECAST TREND
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| No. of Analysts: | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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 |
| Contact | () |
| Registrar | Capita Registrars Limited (Huddersfield) |
| Auditors | PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP |
| 22nd Apr | Trading Statement |
| 10th Apr | Holding(s) in Company |
| 27th Mar | Notice of Results |
| 11th Feb | Holding(s) in Company |
| 4th Feb | Interim Management Statement |
| 7th Jan | Director/PDMR Shareholding |
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