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RWS Holdings, the Chalfont St Peter group that is leading the way in language support services and intellectual property, had a busy month in October with the acquisition of a US cutting-edge IP information business and a move for a second acquisition.
The deal for Article One Partners for $8 million was followed by an agreement to acquire the entire issued share capital of Moravia US Holding Company and Moravia Lux, a leading provider of technology- enabled localisation services, for $320m.
RWS also described its divisional restructuring to form RWS Life Sciences, following the acquisition of LUZ earlier
in the year, as “a critical milestone”. The boardroom activity helped the share price to a 13% rise – the biggest by the region’s large quoted companies.
Star performance of the month was by XP Power, the leading supplier of power solutions which has its UK headquarters at Pangbourne. It was also on the acquisition trail in America, hauling the share price up 26%.
XP announced it has acquired Comdel. a Massachusetts designer and manufacturer of radio frequency power supplies, for $23m. And it also launched a new series of DC-DC converters for cost- sensitive applications.
Large (over £1 billion) Closing price
RWS HOLDINGS GENUS
ELECTROCOMP.
MICRO FOCUS INTL. ASHTEAD GROUP
RECKITT BENCKISER GROUP SHIRE
GLAXOSMITHKLINE CENTRICA
GALLIFORD TRY
29/09/2017 396.8
2,098.0 621.0
2,387.0 1,799.0 6,813.0 3,788.0 1,488.5 187.0
1,353.0
HWYE 2017 winners Lauren Prentice and Bruce Casalis, with Jane Wills (left), David Smy and Jane Gregory from Haines Watts
Closing price 31/10/2017 449.3
2,351.0 694.5
2,645.0 1,940.0 6,735.0 3,721.0 1,357.5 169.8
1,220.0
Medium (£250 million to £1 billion) Closing price
XP POWER (DI)
ACCESSO TECHNOLOGY GROUP SDL
DE LA RUE VITEC GROUP
OXFORD INSTRUMENTS TT ELECTRONICS COSTAIN GROUP
OXFORD BIOMEDICA MICROGEN
29/09/2017 2,776.0 1,880.0 480.0 648.5
1,094.0 969.5 228.0 448.3 9.4
487.5
SINCLAIR PHARMA OXFORD METRICS RM
ACAL LOK’N STORE GROUP
MICHELMERSH BRICK HDG. NANOCO GROUP VERNALIS
TISSUE REGENIX GROUP INTERSERVE
29/09/2017 26.4 58.8
157.5 309.8 367.5 95.0 29.3 14.5 11.3
118.3
Sub £50 million Closing price
FUTURA MEDICAL ANGLE
SOPHEON PIPEHAWK
TRIAD GROUP
EGDON RESOURCES PETARDS GROUP
PEBBLE BEACH
SYS.GP. STARVEST
GOTECH GROUP
29/09/2017 25.5 36.0
365.0 3.6
61.0 8.3
25.0 2.7 4.6 1.9
Closing price 31/10/2017 3,494.0 2,190.0 538.0 700.0
1,125.0 950.5 223.0 432.0 9.0
447.5
Small (£50 million to £250 million) Closing price
Closing price 31/10/2017 29.3 63.8
162.5 317.0 375.0 89.5 26.3 12.8 8.6
73.0
Closing price 31/10/2017 28.0 38.6
377.5 3.8
63.0 7.6
22.3 2.4 3.5 1.4
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Prentice started Sense Theatre in 2011 when she was just 21. It originally offered children’s after-school drama clubs, however in 2016 she sold this side of the company to focus on ‘Sense Parties’ – children’s themed parties, as well as selling group-priced theatre tickets.
Her plans involve rapid growth, including launching a new sister company to offer children’s cookery classes in schools. Prentice said: “I think every entrepreneur has to be a workaholic, but I love what I do. I’m constantly adding new revenue streams to our offerings so that we can face anything the future throws at us.”
Bruce Casalis was 24 when he started multi-award-winning business Bruce’s Doggy Day Care in 2009. He now has two dog crèche centres in Cobham and Ripley, Surrey, each set in the countryside with swimming pools, agility courses, trampolines, heated indoor areas, gazebos, and grooming parlour.
He said: “I identified a gap in the UK market for a better alternative to dog walking
services and now BDDC has grown into the UK’s largest dog day care provider of its kind. BDDC has witnessed huge growth and is forecast to increase further. However, most importantly I have ensured my mantra of ‘loving our customers’ dogs as much as they do’ remains.”
BDDC was named best UK pet service provider in the 2016 national Pet Industry Federation Awards. Part of its success has come about because of its strict record-keeping and it has a unique customer iPhone app and staff iPad app, as well as cloud-based CRM software to track every detail. It now plans to expand and become the UK’s most respected and recognised dog day care service.
Jane Gregory of Haines Watts said: “The winners received cash, free mentoring and publicity as part of their prizes. Congratulations to them.”
sensetheatre.co.uk/parties brucesdoggydaycare.co.uk
For further information about Haines Watts:
hwca.com
Haines Watts announce winners of young
entrepreneur competition
The winners of the 2017 Haines Watts Young Entrepreneur of the Year finals are Lauren Prentice of Sense Theatre and Bruce Casalis of Bruce’s Doggy Day Care (BDDC)
THE BUSINESS MAGAZINE – DECEMBER 2017
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