March 26 (Reuters) - Industrial equipment rental companySpeedy Hire Plc said on Monday its expects full-yearadjusted pretax profit to be ahead of expectations.
"As a result of the group's renewed focus on both SME (smalland medium enterprise) customers and services revenues, anddespite the recent liquidation of Carillion, full-year revenuesbefore disposals are expected to be approximately 6 percentahead of the prior year," Speedy Hire said.
Average asset utilisation for the eleven months to February2018 was 55.4 percent, up 4.3 percent from the previous year.(Reporting by Radhika Rukmangadhan in Bengaluru; Editing bySunil Nair)