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Centaur - Promising new B2B publisher

April 2004

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The proposed merger of business publishing specialists, Informa and Taylor & Francis, has helped to push valuations across the sector to racy levels as investors second guess the likelihood that advertising revenues will return as quickly as they vanished.  Onepromising recent issue that has tapped into this wave of enthusiasm is B2B publisher, Centaur Communications.  Centaur floated on AIM on 10 March, 2004 through an accelerated IPO arranged by Numis at 100p, valuing the company at £148m.   Aside from the acquisition of Perfect Information, a provider of computer-based archives of company information, twenty-two-year-old, Centaur's growthhas been largely organic.  Through a combination of magazi ...

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