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Pre Close Trading Update
Pre Close Trading Update.
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[{"type":"text","content":"\n Matchtech Group PLC\n30 January 2008\n\n30 January 2008\n\n\n Matchtech Group plc\n ('Matchtech' or the 'Company')\n \n Pre Close Trading Update\n\n\nMatchtech, one of the UK's leading technical recruitment companies, will\nannounce its Interim Results for the six months ending 31 January 2008 on Monday\n17 March 2007. Ahead of this, the Company today announces a Pre Close Trading\nUpdate.\n\nIn the six months ending 31 January 2008 the Group has seen good growth in Net\nFee Income ('NFI') across all three operating sectors, Engineering, Built\nEnvironment and Support Services. With the investment in our graduate\nrecruitment campaign, which added an additional 30 consultants at the start of\nthe financial year, operating performance in the first half of the financial\nyear has been in line with the Board's expectations.\n\nGeorge Materna, Chairman of Matchtech, commented: 'I am pleased to report that\nwe have made a good start to the year and that we are currently seeing\nencouraging demand across a broad range of clients for the limited pool of\nskilled resource that is available.'\n\n\nFor further information please contact:\n\n\nMatchtech Group plc 01489 898 989 George Materna, Chairman\n Adrian Gunn, Managing Director\n Tony Dyer, Finance Director\n\n\nArbuthnot Securities 020 7012 2000 Andrew Fullerton / Richard Tulloch\n\n\nHogarth Partnership 020 7357 9477 John Olsen / James Longfield / Fiona Noblet\n\n\nBackground on Matchtech\n\nMatchtech specialises in the provision of contract and permanent staff in the\nEngineering, Built Environment and Support Services sectors across the UK.\n\nIt was established in 1984 and has grown organically to become the UK's 4th\nlargest technical and engineering recruitment specialist and one of the UK's 20\nlargest recruitment companies (Source: Recruitment International Top 100 Report\n- August 2006).\n\nOperating from a single site near Southampton, Matchtech provides predominantly\nprofessionally-qualified candidates to clients in a broad range of industries\nincluding oil and petrochemicals, marine, aerospace, water, electronics, civil\nengineering, building structures and transport infrastructure. It structures its\nbusiness across three main sectors: Engineering, Built Environment and Support\nServices.\n\nMatchtech Group plc floated on AIM in October 2006.\n\n\n\n This informati...