Euro Sales Finance (ESF), the pan European sales finance company, today announced its interim results for the six months ended December 31, 2000. The company claimed that it “has made significant progress towards its objective to become the leading provider of working capital solutions to growth–led businesses throughout the European Union.”
According to ESF, the highlights for the first six months of the year ending 30 June 2001 have been:
Profits before tax amounted to Ј3.012m (after an exceptional net charge of Ј0.4m) which compares with Ј1.41m in 1999- an increase of 114%
Earnings per share 12.5p (1999: 7.7p) an increase of 62%
Dividend 1.0p (1999: 0.75p) a rise of 33%
