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GBG (AIM: GBG), the specialist in identity data intelligence, announces the launch of CitizenSafe®, its citizen identity verification service, which has today gone live as part of the UK government's GOV.UK Verify service. The combined initial value of the contracts to all GOV.UK Verify partners will be £150m but this is expected to grow over the next 5 years as increasing numbers of UK citizens are authenticated to access government services online
Strong order book at £201m (30 June 2015: £140m); · Revenue up 31% to £157.8m (31 December 2014: £120.5m); · Underlying(1) PBT up 43% to £14.4m (31 December 2014: £10.1m); · Organic(2) underlying revenue up 9% to £130.8m (31 December 2014: £120.5m); · Organic(2) underlying PBT up 10% to £11.1m (31 December 2014: £10.1m); · Underlying(1) basic earnings per share up 31% to 20.8p (31 December 2014: 15.9p); · Net debt of £32.2m after £41.5m net acquisition expenditure (30 June 2015 net funds: £14.3m); · Interim dividend up 9% to 5.07p per share (31 December 2014: 4.65p); · Acquisitions of Lloyd's Register Rail ('LR Rail') and Cascade completed in the period; and · Outlook remains positive, strong platform for further growth.