(By Anthony Miller – Monday 29th June 2009 9:00am). Well that’s a relief! After depressing news from UK-based BPO rivals
Mouchel (aka ‘Serco-lite’ – see
Mouchel ticks the wrong boxes) a couple of weeks ago, and
Xchanging a month earlier (see
Xchanging ‘triple whammy’ revenue warning),
Serco stuck to its upbeat outlook from a month ago (see
Public sector paying off for Serco) with a positive pre-half-year-close trading update (see
here). They also announced a very respectable £180m deal with the Aussie Government
“to transform its immigration detention centres” (by the way, these have been a nagging and controversial issue in Oz for years). We still have very little visibility on Serco’s software and IT services activities. We keep trying to get them to ‘open the kimono’ but they are a bashful mob! We will persevere as we believe Serco is a ranking player in the UK SITS market and worthy of note.
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