Trading update

Trading update

Dealings by directors

Dealings by directors

Dealings by directors

Dealings by directors

Half-yearly report

Dealings by directors

Dealings by directors

LPA GROUP PLC
The Company was notified on 21 April 2010 that Per Staehr, Non-Executive Director, had on that day purchased 5,000 ordinary shares of 10p each in the Company, at a price of 34 pence per share.

 

Further to the purchase, Per Staehr is beneficially interested in 80,000 ordinary shares, being 0.70% of the Company’s issued share capital.
For further information, please contact:

 

LPA Group plc
Steve Brett, Company Secretary
Tel: 07881 626127 or
01799 512860
Religare Capital Markets (Nominated Adviser)
James Pinner
Ben Jeynes
Tel: 020 7444 0800
Tel: 020 7444 0800
Religare Capital Markets (Broker)
Alan Rooke
Tel: 020 7444 0500

Dealings by directors

LPA GROUP PLC
The Company was notified on 15 April 2010 that Per Staehr, Non-Executive Director, has today purchased 10,000 ordinary shares of 10p each in the Company, at a price of 28 pence per share. Further to the purchase, Per Staehr is beneficially interested in 75,000 ordinary shares, being 0.66% of the Company’s issued share capital.

 

For further information, please contact:

 

LPA Group plc
Steve Brett, Company Secretary
Tel: 07881 626127 or
01799 512860

Change of name of nominated advisor and broker

LPA GROUP PLC
LPA announces that Blomfield Corporate Finance Limited, the Company’s Nominated Adviser, has changed its name to Religare Capital Markets (UK) Limited and that its broker, Religare Hichens, Harrison plc, has changed its name to Religare Capital Markets plc.

Both Religare Capital Markets (UK) Limited and Religare Capital Markets plc trade as Religare Capital Markets.
ENQUIRIES:

LPA Group plc
Peter Pollock, Chief Executive
Steve Brett, Finance Director
Tel: 07881 626123 or 01799 512844
Tel: 07881 626127 or 01799 512860
Religare Capital Markets
(Nominated Adviser)
Alan MacKenzie
Ben Jeynes
Tel: 020 7444 0800
Religare Capital Markets (Broker) Tel: 020 7444 0500
College Hill
Gareth David

AGM Statement and trading update

LPA GROUP PLC
LPA Group plc (“LPA” or the “Company”) is an AIM-quoted manufacturer and distributor of lighting, power and electronic systems.

 

At today’s Annual General Meeting, all resolutions were duly passed.

 

Michael Rusch, Chairman, made the following comments on current trading:  


“In the Annual Report & Accounts for the year ending 30 September 2009, I reported that approximately £1.7m of anticipated sales had been removed from this year’s turnover as a result of unexpected rescheduling of deliveries against project orders by customers.

 

“I said then that the first half of the 2010 financial year would be disproportionately affected. The actual effect over the first five months of this financial year is that output is £1.5m behind the budget set in September 2009.

 

“However, the worst would appear to be behind us in that output recovered during February of this year to almost normal levels and the load for March and the rest of the financial year is at substantially higher levels than February.

 

“I am pleased to report that orders taken during the first five months of this financial year have exceeded budget by £1.5m, increasing our order book by £1.1m to £17.9m as at February 2010.

 

“Routine orders for standard products have generally remained buoyant, although Defence and Aerospace business has been slow. As previously reported, however, sub-contract work remains depressed.

 

“New orders in this period included £1.2m of the long anticipated contracts for Inter-car Jumpers and Lighting for the additional Pendolino Cars and Trains for the West Coast Mainline, which will total almost £2m. This represents an important reference with Alstom in Italy, where the Pendolinos will be built. Further enquiries for lighting, including our LED products, have already been forthcoming.

 

“Progress has been made in developing LED Lighting markets outside the rail industry, but these developments remain at an early stage.

 

“To what extent the damage caused by the rescheduling of contract deliveries from the first half of the 2010 financial year can be mitigated in the second half for the year as a whole still remains unclear, however, we remain confident that progress will be made from this low point in recent performance.

 

“I will report further on this with the half-yearly report for the six months ending 31 March 2010, which the Company will announce in June 2010.”

 

4 March 2010

 

ENQUIRIES:

 

LPA Group plc
Peter Pollock, Chief Executive
Steve Brett, Finance Director

 

Tel: 07881 626123 or 01799 512844
Tel: 07881 626127 or 01799 512860
Blomfield Corporate Finance Limited
Alan MacKenzie
Ben Jeynes

 

Tel: 020 7444 0800 
Religare Hichens, Harrison plc
Alan Rooke
Tel: 020 7444 0500
College Hill
Gareth David
Tel: 020 7457 2020

Dealings by directors

LPA GROUP PLC
The Company was notified on 17 February 2010 that Per Staehr, Non Executive Director, has today purchased 15,000 ordinary shares of 10p each in the Company, at a price of 32 pence per share. Further to the purchase, Per Staehr is beneficially interested in 65,000 ordinary shares, being 0.57% of the Company’s issued share capital.

 

For further information, please contact:

 

LPA Group plc
Stephen Brett, Company Secretary
01799 5128600

Preliminary announcement of results for the year ended 30 September 2009