Empresaria Share Discussion Threads

[goatman] 11/1/2006 11:03

Hello chaps,

I just bought a few of these. My broker went to the market to get within the 73/78 spread and came back with 80p! My timimg wasn't perfect, but hopefully with the director buy and Caledonia's buy we are in good company...

G

[cockneyrebel] 10/1/2006 11:55

Caledonia Investments buys an initial 1.25m shares.

The Company received notification on 6 January 2006 from Caledonia Investments plc ("Caledonia") that the following transactions in the Company's ordinary shares of 5p each ("Ordinary Shares") occurred:

* an initial purchase of 1,000,000 Ordinary Shares on 4 January 2006; and

* a further purchase of 276,000 Ordinary Shares on 5 January 2006.

Following these transactions, Caledonia has a beneficial holding of 1,276,000 Ordinary Shares representing 5.73% of the total issued share capital.

CR

[felix99] 09/1/2006 09:26

looks like a few others taking notice :-)

[cockneyrebel] 07/1/2006 19:39

Director buy gets a mention on Sharecast:



CR

[cockneyrebel] 07/1/2006 11:43

Thanks Felix - the company is more your field than mine - I'm using instinct here on that director buy and what looks like a stock that has floated and where those in the float have got bored. See it so many times in new floats, then large volume and a big spike up.

I like what I've read since buying tho.

CR

[felix99] 07/1/2006 10:06

No probs CR - you forgot to mention the Bridgewell forecasts on Refs of 5.5p rising to 7.0p for 2006 - although I note that it was issued on 9/12 which is before the 12/12 deal above.

Clearly Monsieur Martin thinks he is onto a good thing - had a smallish punt ahead of next update. Might beinteresting running up to full year results announcmeent for y/e 31/12 just gone.

Pretty impressive steady growth on OFEX and then this Martin arriving from the TRB purchase seems to be taking it to the next level.

Following a move from ofex to Aim Oct04 raising £2.5m they have bought 68% of TRB which is where Tony Martin has come on BOard in Jan 05. He then helped set up a Japanese JV and EMR bought his half for £350k in shares. They have bought several businesses or set up JV's or taken stakes in international staffing/recruitment businesses and are in the process of rolloing out an internnational network from what I can see. Seemed to be getting a big global foot print especially in Asia and for very little money as far as I can see. From what Ihave read so far it looks quite impressive and Martin clearly thinks he is on to a winner. Will do some more digging before I buy more but certainly looks a promising spot ref the director buy CR. Cheers

Post script

Link to company website and profile




Seems Martin came from Select Appointments .Got a non exec sits on Board of Tribal Group .UK Healthcare company doing work and bidding for NHS outsourcing ( NB CR - one I am looking at again as working in health sector and I know Tribal are nivolved in quite a few big tenders ) .Presumalby a nice link for EMR to supply staff to I would imagine.

Map of locations has Tokyo on it but needs updating for the Australian, Far East and US and Shangai affiliates/JV's as far as I can see. I guess Europe will be next stop as seems to be only place with Zero presence

Lovely track record of performance - gonna buy more Monday , the more I see the more I like , sorry typing as I read. Appoinmtent of Penny Greer , investmen banker and small and mid caps equity specialist on 13/12 - should provide great CFinance advice on expanding and wooing investors imho

Nice Spot

[cockneyrebel] 06/1/2006 17:30

cheers Felix

[felix99] 06/1/2006 16:46

It seems to be a MITIE model - quite an interesting company and now has exposure following its recent acquisition to the tiger economies all of which we know are booming quite nicely.

Could ber a psuedo play on China if you look at the recent acquisition



12/12/05
Acquisition of Monroe Consulting Group Pty Ltd (Australia) and Monroe Consulting
Group KK (Japan)





Empresaria Group plc ('Empresaria' or 'the Group') is pleased to announce that
on Friday 9th December it completed an investment of AUS$1.8m (£775k) in two
connected businesses, Monroe Consulting Group Pty Ltd ('MCG') and Monroe
Consulting Group KK ('MCG KK'), acquiring a 60% shareholding in each company
through the issue of new shares. The existing management team retains the
remaining shareholding.



This transaction continues the expansion of Empresaria's international
operations. It extends the Group's representation into three new countries,
Australia, Thailand and Indonesia, as well as strengthening the Group's existing
presence in Japan.



MCG is based in Sydney, Australia and supplies IT, call centre, sales and
marketing and accountancy and finance staff on both a temporary and permanent
basis. The company also has operations in Thailand and Indonesia operating
under joint venture arrangements and focusing primarily on the supply of call
centre staff. MCG KK is a recent stand alone start up investment in Japan
focussing currently on the provision of temporary staff to the Japanese call
centre industry. MCG has 34 staff based in Sydney, 12 in Thailand and 9 in
Indonesia. MCG KK operates with 7 staff in Tokyo. MCG and MCG KK generated
cumulative revenue of AUS$ 10.75 (£4.3m) in the year ending 30 June 2005 up from
AUS$7.3m (£3m) in the previous year.



An initial cash investment of AUS$1.8m is being made with AUS$1.2m being
invested through the issue of new shares across both MCG and MCG KK and AUS$600k
being provided by way of a loan. Of this sum AUS$750k will remain in the
companies with the balance being used to repay outstanding loans. As part of
the transaction Empresaria has also agreed to pay a further deferred cash sum of
AUS$250k during the first quarter of 2006 which will further strengthen the
balance sheets of each company and enable the management team to implement and
finance growth plans in each of the markets in which it operates. Empresaria's
investment is being made out of existing cash resources.



Commenting on the acquisition, Miles Hunt, Chief Executive of Empresaria said:



'Monroe Consulting Group has an established operation and recognised brand in
Australia and a management team who have demonstrated the ambition to expand
into the emerging staffing markets of the Far East. The investment of working
capital and access to development capital resulting from this transaction will
better enable the Monroe management team to fulfil their growth ambitions. For
Empresaria, this transaction represents further access to growing international
staffing markets and marks another step in the path towards developing a
balanced spread of international staffing operations. It also further
demonstrates that the management equity philosophy and model, used successfully
in the UK, has equal application in markets outside the UK. We are delighted
that MCG and MCG KK are joining the Group.'

This is Chinese bit


Empresaria Group PLC
07 December 2005

Empresaria Group plc



Investment in staffing company in China





Empresaria Group plc ('Empresaria' or 'the Group') is pleased to announce that
it has today invested in Aston HR Consulting Ltd ('Aston HR') a UK start up
company which will itself enter into a joint venture with an established
Shanghai based HR consulting and staffing company.



Empresaria has agreed to invest £250,000 by way of equity and loan into Aston HR
Consulting Ltd ('Aston HR'), a new UK company in order to acquire a 49% interest
in Tian Yun Human Resources Co. Ltd an established Shanghai based staffing
company which will operate under the Aston HR brand. Empresaria is co-investing
with the new management team of the Chinese company to contribute a total
collective investment of £300,000.



The Aston HR management team is led by Juliet Newett, who was born and raised in
Shanghai before gaining over eight years financial services recruitment
experience in London. The company will focus initially on supporting the
international business community operating in China with particular initial
focus on financial services and IT sectors.



Miles Hunt, Chief Executive of Empresaria commented: 'The investment in Aston
HR represents a further step along the path towards creating a balanced,
international specialist staffing group. Investing in the rapidly expanding
China market with its emerging staffing sector provides opportunities for
accelerated growth and also further develops our strategy of diversifying
operations, and therefore risk, across different international markets.'

[cockneyrebel] 06/1/2006 16:07

Recruitment company Empresaria Group PLC said chairman Anthony Martin has bought 958,041 shares, or 4.3 pct, in the company at 66 pence each.

Martin now owns almost 2.611 mln Empresaria shares, or a stake of 11.73 pct.


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Exactly 8 weeks prior to the date they had a trading update on last year.
CR

[cockneyrebel] 06/1/2006 15:45

Looks like a very interesting director buy of 1m shares nearly.

Single digit forward PE, could be very low if they are ahead I guess

CR

[sharegod] 18/9/2005 18:21

results tomorrow

[cezary] 20/11/2004 17:27

History of Empresaria
Empresaria was formed in June 1996 to grow a profitable, sustainable, diversified recruitment group built on the philosophy of management equity.

In the intervening years we have established a platform of 20 individual recruitment companies. All companies operate autonomously within one of five focussed market sectors.

These sectors are:

Financial Services
Supply Chain
Construction, Property Services and Engineering
Public Sector
Specialist Brands

Empresaria has grown rapidly through providing funds and support to successful managers and consultants, enabling them to set up and build their own autonomous operations.

Over the last few years we have widened our focus to include providing funds for targeted acquisitions where management are seeking to acquire an equity stake.

As well as providing the bulk of the funds required for any start-up the Empresaria team provide immediate and ongoing administrative and managerial support.

Empresaria Philosophy
Underpinning Empresaria is the philosophy of management equity with key staff offered the opportunity to acquire a meaningful equity stake in their business