ARL.L Regulatory News (ARL)

15 Aug 2006 09:00

SMC Group Plc15 August 2006 SMC Group Plc NOTIFICATION OF INTERIM RESULTS SMC Group Plc, the architects and design business, will be announcing itsinterim results for the six months ended 30 June 2006 on Wednesday 30 August2006. - ends - For further information please contact: SMC Group Plc Tel: +44 (0)20 7495 5335Stewart McColl Numis Securities Tel: +44 (0)20 7776 1500Michael Rowan and Emma Tod Bell Pottinger Corporate & Financial Tel: +44 (0)20 7861 3232David Rydell/Chris Hamilton Notes to Editors SMC Group Plc is the holding company for a group of architects and designers. Ithas established expertise in a broad range of sectors, including residential,retail, industrial, workplace, transportation, leisure and education. On the 30th May 2006, the Group announced the acquisition of The CharterPartnership Ltd (trading as Charter Consultant Architects) an architecture anddesign company with offices in London, Bedford, Bournemouth and Ipswich. Thisfollowed the acquisition of Alsop in March 2006. The Group now has 16 officesthroughout England and 4 outside the UK, in Toronto, Singapore, Shanghai andBeijing. The Company's core strategy is to create an architectural group with the scaleand expertise to access the most profitable schemes across a range of sectorsand geographical locations. The Group intends to focus on its organic growth,increasing its share of the UK market and securing larger, higher marginprojects. The Group plans to continue to complement this organic growth withearnings-enhancing acquisitions in order to consolidate its geographic andsector coverage. On 27th April 2006 the Group announced it full year figures for the year ended31st December 2005, showing that turnover had grown by 159% to £13.5m, profitbefore tax grown by 280% to £2.9m, gross profit margin grown by 182% to £7.4m,EBITDA grown by 218% to £3.7m and profit after tax grown by 263% to £1.9m. This information is provided by RNS The company news service from the London Stock Exchange