Halma Regulatory News (HLMA)

27 Apr 2006 07:00

Halma PLC27 April 2006 Halma p.l.c. YEAR END TRADING UPDATE The Board currently expects full year pre-tax profits on continuing operationsfor the year ended 1 April 2006, to be slightly ahead of the top end of currentmarket expectations, which in turn recently increased following our tradingupdate made on 28 February 2006. All sectors had a very strong final quarterfor sales and orders. The Group was ungeared at the financial year end. The broad pattern of sectoral performance reported at the Interim Report stagecontinued with Health and Analysis and Industrial Safety performing strongly. Within the Health and Analysis sector, our Water businesses have achieved asignificant recovery in both sales and profits. Infrastructure Sensors isstarting to show more positive signs of sales growth although, as indicatedthroughout the year, we have continued to invest in expanding its global salesresources to improve our opportunities for growth in the longer term. The performance of the three acquisitions made during the year, Texecom(Infrastructure Sensors), Netherlocks (Industrial Safety) and Radio-Tech (Healthand Analysis) exceeded our expectations and we remain positive about theirfuture growth opportunities. The Group's preliminary results for the year to 1 April 2006 will be publishedon Tuesday 20 June 2006. For further information, please contact: Halma p.l.c. Tel: +44 (0)1494 721111Andrew Williams, Group Chief ExecutiveKevin Thompson, Group Finance Director Hogarth Partnership Limited Tel: +44 (0)20 7357 9477Rachel Hirst/Andrew Jaques A copy of this announcement, together with other information about Halma, may be viewed on its website: www.halma.com This information is provided by RNS The company news service from the London Stock Exchange