Corporate Services Share Discussion Threads

[knowing] 20/12/2007 11:11

Vendor Procurement

Comensura, our vendor procurement business, has had a good second half with
further new clients gained. Revenues and gross profits are both ahead of the
prior year. Further expansion is planned in 2008.

Also with the pound weakening against the $ it should improve those margins further.

[knowing] 20/12/2007 07:43

Corporate Services Trading Statement




RNS Number:2978K
Corporate Services Group PLC
20 December 2007


THE CORPORATE SERVICES GROUP plc


Pre-close trading up-date

The Corporate Services Group plc, ('the Group'), a leading provider of staffing
solutions, today issues the following trading up-date ahead of the Group's
preliminary results for the year ending 31 December 2007 which will be announced
in early March 2008.


UK Commercial Staffing

Revenues and gross profit from our UK commercial staffing businesses are
expected

to show continued strong growth over the prior year, despite an uncertain
market. The continued focus on sales generation and improvements in operational
productivity has enabled us to capture market share. With productivity levels
now at industry norms, we will look to make selective investment to deliver
further sales and margin growth in the coming year.


Healthcare Staffing

We have continued to see significant revenue growth in our healthcare business
driven by strong demand for locum doctors and substantial growth in our Nursing
and domiciliary care businesses, including the Chrysalis Community Care business
that we acquired in June.


Vendor Procurement

Comensura, our vendor procurement business, has had a good second half with
further new clients gained. Revenues and gross profits are both ahead of the
prior year. Further expansion is planned in 2008.


US Commercial Staffing

Despite a challenging US market place, dollar revenues and gross profit from our
US Staffing businesses are anticipated to be marginally ahead of those achieved
in 2006 with the growth rate in gross profit again expected to be more than the
growth rate in revenue. This performance reflects the targeting of middle market
companies operating in the clerical, technical, and professional sectors and is,
we believe, ahead of the market.


Group trading result

Overall, the Board expects that the Group's 2007 earnings will show a continued
improvement in profitability and will be in-line with market expectations.


For further information please contact:

[knowing] 18/12/2007 10:37

Good opportunity here.Market reacting positively.

[purav] 17/12/2007 18:11

bridggar where is the update?
19th dec an odd time

[chancer6] 17/12/2007 17:35

Finally started to move back up! Should do well from here now IMO.

[thepopeofchillitown] 17/12/2007 14:47

At last. Broken even!!!! Lets hope for more.

[bridggar] 17/12/2007 14:04

Welcome tick up today....

[knowing] 17/12/2007 10:56

Time to go higher now all the shuffling has finished.

[knowing] 13/12/2007 23:36

Purav not everyone has it on their monitor.

[chancer6] 12/12/2007 20:20

Did say Allianze SE would be buying more...they've bought another 17 million shares to take their holding to 24%.

[purav] 12/12/2007 16:34

konwing.. i share your interest in csv, but i dont understand why you post the announcement. its available via "news",,:-)
I bought in further at 2.38 thinking it cant go down any further. ....

[knowing] 12/12/2007 14:41

RNS Number:7250J
Corporate Services Group PLC
12 December 2007



TR-1: Notification of major interests in shares


1. Identity of the issuer or the underlying issuer of existing Corporate Services Group PLC
shares to which voting rights are attached:

2. Reason for the notification (please tick the appropriate box or boxes)

An acquisition or disposal of voting rights X

An acquisition or disposal of financial instruments which may result in the acquisition of
shares already issued to which voting rights are attached

An event changing the breakdown of voting rights

Other (please specify):

3. Full name of person(s) subject to the notification Allianz SE
obligation:

4. Full name of shareholder(s) (if different from 3.): Veer Palthe Voute NV

5. Date of the transaction (and date on which the threshold is 07 December 2007
crossed or reached if different):

6. Date on which issuer notified: 11 December 2007

7. Threshold(s) that is/are crossed or reached: 23 % & 24%



8. Notified details:



A: Voting rights attached to shares
Class/type of Situation previous to the Resulting situation after the triggering transaction
shares Triggering transaction


if possible Number of Number of Number of Number of voting rights % of voting rights
using the ISIN Shares Voting shares
CODE Rights

Direct Direct Indirect Direct Indirect


GB0002251600 242,317,565 242,317,565 259,540,799 24.12%




B: Financial Instruments

Resulting situation after the triggering transaction

Type of financial Expiration date Exercise/ Conversion Number of voting rights % of voting
instrument Period/ Date that may be acquired if rights
the instrument is
exercised/ converted.





Total (A+B)


Number of voting rights % of voting rights

259,540,799 24.12%




9. Chain of controlled undertakings through which the voting rights and/or the financial instruments are effectively
held, if applicable:

Veer Palthe Voute NV is a direct subsidiary of Dresdner Bank Luxembourg S.A., a direct subsidiary of Dresdner Bank AG
("Dresdner"). Dresdner is a direct subsidiary of Allianz Finanzbeteiligungs GmbH, which is itself a direct subsidiary
of Allianz SE.


Proxy Voting:

10. Name of the proxy holder:

11. Number of voting rights proxy holder will cease to hold:

12. Date on which proxy holder will cease to hold voting rights:


13. Additional information: The disclosed holding is based on the issuers' 'Total Voting
Rights' announcement dated 12 December 2006 of 1,075,657,955.
VPV are interested in 259,377,084 shares representing 24.11% of
the total voting rights of Corporate Services Group PLC.

14. Contact name: Naomi Stuart

15. Contact telephone number: 01582 692624


This information is provided by RNS
The company news service from the London Stock Exchange
END

[knowing] 07/12/2007 21:55

Thanks Chancer.

[chancer6] 07/12/2007 19:15

05.12.07 :.-9, (1.88) Daniel Stewart has initiated Corporate Services Group as 'buy' with a 3.7 pence target, saying that while the market is concerned by high debt levels, it believes finances are tight but manageable, and sees a number of ways to repair the balance sheet, according to traders. In a note to clients, Daniel Stewart said a 2008 estimated PE ratio of 2.8 times reflects concerns over debt and the risk of a dilutive equity issue - which it expects the group to avoid. Furthermore, it says it does not expect Corporate Services to breach its banking covenant, estimating that this would only occur in the event of a 2008 recession. The broker said that it sees 90% upside to its sum-of-the-parts value, offering scope for share price and balance sheet repair through disposals or merger.

[knowing] 06/12/2007 22:01

02-Nov-07 Seymour Pierce Outperform 3.53p - - Upgrade

From Digital Look

[knowing] 05/12/2007 11:07

Probably the funds which cannot hold outside the FTSE Small Cap Index reshuffling their portfolios.


Corporate Services Group, which owns the BlueArrow recruitment chain, fell
0.14 to close at 1.9. The company is set to lose its place in the FTSE Small Cap
Index, dropping into the Fledgling index, at the quarterly reshuffle, which is
based on market caps at the close of business on Dec 11.
Corporate Services made a profit warning in August, having suffered
accounting problems at its Comensura unit, and its market cap is now around 20
mln stg.

[jimibt] 05/12/2007 10:26

partner - do you have a link to that??

[partner] 05/12/2007 10:21

Brokers note out target 3.7p.

[jimibt] 05/12/2007 10:09

you can say that again!!

odd thing is, i just tried a buy on barc and mkt size is only 10k. if those were all sells, i'd expect the mkt size to be 250k at least. btw -don't have a position here 'yet' but this strangeness is making me wonder if somethings afoot!!

[vssnottm] 05/12/2007 10:07

5.1mil traded. ??

[vssnottm] 05/12/2007 10:07

Sorry, faulty finger.