AGM Statement (3272E)
May 29 2012 - 7:07AM
UK Regulatory
TIDMELCO
RNS Number : 3272E
Eleco PLC
29 May 2012
29 May 2012
Eleco plc
("Eleco" or the "Company")
AGM Statement
John Ketteley, Executive Chairman of Eleco plc (AIM: ELCO), made
the following statement at the Company's Annual General Meeting
today:
"Current Trading
Group Profit before tax and interest for the first four months
of 2012, based on unaudited internal management accounts and before
exceptional costs of GBP163,000, amounted to GBP51,000, compared
with a loss before tax and interest of GBP1,529,000 before
exceptional costs of GBP232,000 for the same period last year.
ElecoPrecast(R)
I refer you also to the recently announced rationalisation under
the ElecoPrecast(R) brand of our precast concrete interests, which
will involve much closer co-operation between Bell & Webster
Concrete in Grantham and Milbury Systems in Lydney. Unfortunately,
the rationalisation process will inevitably result in some
redundancies and further exceptional costs before the anticipated
benefits of the closer collaboration between the two businesses
become evident. The Board considered these aspects very carefully
indeed before taking its decision to proceed.
Completion of the ElecoPrecast(R) project will mean that we
shall have achieved our objective of establishing two clearly
defined business entities in the Group, namely, ElecoBuild(R),
comprising all our UK building systems interests, and ElecoSoft(R),
comprising all our software interests, including Asta Development
in the UK, Consultec in Sweden and Esign and Eleco Software in
Germany.
Trading Outlook
With regard to the trading outlook for the business, all of
ElecoBuild(R)'s building systems interests remain exposed to the UK
construction industry, where trading conditions continue to be
particularly difficult and with little respite expected. However,
we do believe that the actions taken by management to reduce costs
and to stabilise and rationalise these businesses over the past two
years, should enable ElecoBuild(R) to operate profitably in such
conditions going forward.
Our software interests have performed well in the first four
months of the year. More than 75 per cent of the turnover and
profits of ElecoSoft(R) is attributable to its operations in
Germany and Sweden together with its involvement in other
international markets; ElecoSoft(R)'s remaining software interests
are based in the UK where they have also performed creditably,
despite being exposed to a currently weak UK construction
market.
When considering the significant structural changes that have
had to be made to the Group's operations in the past two and a half
years, the Board of Eleco believes that the Company now has the
potential to perform better in both its building systems and
construction software markets, despite of difficult conditions that
are still being experienced across the UK construction market."
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Enquiries:
Eleco plc www.eleco.com
John Ketteley, Executive
Chairman +44 (0)1920 443830
Cenkos Securities plc
Adrian Hargrave +44 (0) 207 397 8900
Peckwater PR tarquin.edwards@peckwaterpr.co.uk
Tarquin Edwards +44 (0) 7879 458 364
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