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Detica - IT consultancy benefits from buoyant defence spend

February 2004

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Over the month we met Tom Black, chief executive of Detica, which provides project-based IT Consulting and Systems Integration services to the Government and Commercial sectors.  Detica went public in April 2002, right in the middle of the indiscriminate sell off in the IT sector and  the shares, which floated at 392p, at one point freefell to 198p.  However, Detica has continued achieving consistent double digit profit growth largely thanks to its exposure toa renaissance in Government defence spending, stimulated by the war on terror. This, along with tentative signs of a pick-up on the commercialside, means Detica can look forward to some fat years ahead. AsBlack emphatically points out, Detica is not in t ...

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