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LONDON (AFX) - FFastFill PLC saw its pretax loss narrow in the six months to Sept 30 2003.

It said the past six months has been a period of consolidation and progress for the company providing a strong platform from which to launch its new application service offerings.

The results show a pretax loss of 1.2 mln stg compared with 2.6 mln and a massive 317 pct increase in turnover to 1.6 mln stg.

The group said it has made good progress in bringing forward the next generation of software; this is planned for delivery during the first half of 2004.

'We now have a strong pipeline, which will lead to more new customer signings later this financial year,' it added.

Cash at the end of September was 1.588 mln stg, down from 2.45 mln. No interim dividend is proposed.

Executive chairman Keith Todd said that, while budgets for IT expenditure in the financial services sector remain constrained, derivatives volumes are growing and prospects and customers are looking for efficiency improvements in the delivery of their technology.

'The board has confidence in the competitiveness of the company's software and services and in its ability to deliver its plans.'

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Thoughts anyone?

Director's June09-deals are pretty poor IMHO - almost a week after they post "increases" three Dirs dip-in to a total of under50k - ( which makes me look, if it's EACH!)......Ooer not exactly a lot of confidence in this software-business.
Not one for me, now.

I bought into this one last week @ 5.69p, had some a couple of years ago but sold @ a small loss, so looking to recoup that loss and hopefully make a few bob.
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