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Office refurbishment group Styles and Wood reported a significant improvement in profits in 2011 after more firms opted to spruce up their offices than move. Underlying pre-tax profit came in a £1.8m in the year to the end of December, up from £0.5m in 2010. Revenues were £101.0m, up slightly on the previous year's figure of £99.1m, driven by its core banking and high-end retail sectors.

"We are delighted with this contract win," said Chief Executive Steve Russell. "It is a high calibre global client which further endorses our market leading product and it supports our strategy of expanding in the fast growing geography of Asia Pacific." The firm's shares rose 3.6% in early trading on Wednesday following the announcement.

Software firm Bond International said it had signed a contract worth 1.25 million Australian dollars with one of the country's largest recruitment providers. Bond failed to detail exactly which firm it was doing business with, but said its software would be installed in the mystery company's network of offices across Australia, Canada, South Africa, Hong Kong, Philippines and the UK, during the course of 2012.

Inland Homes, which makes money by investing and building on brown field sites, has now paid £2m following the completion of the purchase of the southern part of the St John's Hospital in Chelmsford. The firm expects to build over 100 homes on the southern section of the site. The firm recently submitted a planning application to develop the northern part of the project. The company has acquired a six-acre site within Grays in Essex for £1.3m which has planning permission for 130 units. The company intends to sell part of the land to other house builders and develop certain areas itself in the future. Furthermore, Inland has obtained planning permission on the Swan Public House site in West Drayton, for 25 supported housing units

Trakm8, a technology equipment firm, has begun the shipment of its A1091 hardware platform to golf, turf, and utility fleet solution specialists, DSG TAG Systems. The firm had expected shipment to commence this time last year but was delayed as a results of 'internal' issues which has now been resolved. The company was keen to emphasise that it has seen demand for a number of its products increase substantially during the first quarter of 2012.

Deltex Medical, the oesophageal Doppler monitor maker, is to raise in the region of £1.5m through a placing of 6.1m new shares at 26p each. The company said it is expecting an increase in orders which will require an increase in working capital, hence the fund raising. The group added that UK surgical probe sales in the first quarter were up 40% year-on-year, a significant increase over both the compound annual growth rate of 20% since the launch of surgical probes in 2004 and the 16% increase in UK surgical probe sales achieved in 2011 compared to 2010. The UK surgical installed base increased by 38 monitors to 557 by March 31st 2012. Sales of probes in export markets in the first quarter were also ahead of 2011, driven by increased uptake in several of Deltex's larger export markets.

Loss-making green technology company TEG Group has entered into a further contract with recycling firm Viridor to process additional volumes of green and food waste in TEG's network of facilities. The contract will run until April 2014. The revenue over the term of the contract will depend upon the volume of waste delivered by Viridor over the period.

"FOGL is expected to commence drilling in June with any success promising a substantial increase in the value of FIH's shareholding," Hudd said. The announcement pushed the company's shares up 2.5% in early trading on Wednesday

The strength of the global art market has also helped lift its MOMART division, which handles and stores fine art and antiquities. "In the UK, both the group's businesses are performing well with the recovery in profits at Momart being particularly encouraging," said Chairman David Hudd. The firm also has a 4.4% shareholding in Falkland Oil and Gas Ltd, which the firm said had shifted its attention to the Southern basin.

This is up slightly from 9.5p per share in 2010. The firm said its Falkland Islands Company arm, which covers retailing, property, insurance, hotels, shipping and fishing agency services on the islands, had experienced good trading, with local demand boosted by oil exploration.

Shares in Falkland Islands Holdings were up on Wednesday after the firm said trading for the year was ahead of market expectations. The AIM-traded group which, amongst other things, operates a ferry service across the mouth of Portsmouth harbour, expects its total dividend payment to be at least 10p per share.

Full results will be issued on June 6th. Printing.com has had a difficult 12 months, with the shares down 19% since April last year. Today's update boosted the price by 2.6% in morning trading

Printing.com, the Manchester-headquartered printing firm, says its results for the full year to the end of March will be in line with expectations. The firm says momentum has increased from its "new and 'Template' initiatives" with revenue exceeding £100,000 during March 2012.

Wasbi Energy's wholly owned subsidiary Imparator Enerji has made significant progress in Turkey, following sustained growth in the country's economy and the corresponding increase in energy demand. The situation has enabled Wasabi to implement its Kalina Cycle power generation technology as it exploits the changes the country is making in its energy policies. In recent months, Imparator has entered into a series of commercial arrangements with a number of strategic partners, including project developers in Turkey and specifically the purchase of an option to acquire an interest in an advanced geothermal project. The opportunity for the product to generate power by recovering waste heat has been confirmed to be greater than 1,700 megawatt electrical.

Hopefully this will be sorted today,and we will geta good rise good luck all.....

Shares in Huntsworth had dropped 4% by 08:41. Since the start of the year the group has risen 37% although it is still 32% down over the last 12 months.

He added: "In the current year, we anticipate first quarter like-for-like revenue growth of 3.0% and about one quarter of 2012 budgeted profits to be earned in Q1 [the first quarter] - a significantly higher proportion than in previous years. The group's new business pipeline is strong and we expect the improvement in profitability to be maintained both in the first half and for the year as a whole.

Earnings per share after the exceptional items was 3.9p against expectations of 6.2p (discounting the exceptionals, earnings per share was in line with expectations). The full year dividend will be 3.5p, just short of the forecast of 3.52p. Peter Chadlington, Chief Executive of Huntsworth, said: "Management has taken action to reduce the cost base across the group, as well as make it more flexible and better able to match clients' requirements and spending patterns."

Public relations and healthcare communications specialist, Huntsworth, says cancellation of contracts in the final three months of 2011 reduced full year revenues and profits. Group revenues rose by 1.5% to £176.3m versus £173.6m in 2010. The consensus expectation was £177.87m. Operating profits after central costs fell by 20.6% to £23.5m (2010: £29.6m). Profits before tax came in at £19.1m, slightly ahead of expectations of £19.04m, but exceptional charges reduced the reported figure to £10.6m

t was hit by a leap in the number of claims made, particularly after the earthquakes in Japan and New Zealand. Catastrophe losses at the firm totalled $85.6m (2010: $55.0m). It wasn't all bad news, however, as basic earnings per share rose from 17.6 cents to 36.5c, while cash levels jumped from $37.9m to $52.8m.