A recent aquisition for Intelliplus Group plc and new contracts for this company are coming in thick and fast. Result - share price is consistently heading north - Up 46% since 1/10. Perhaps one to quietly be a ten bagger over the next few months. DYOR

LOL

Totally agree with you Legins.

ajren, you are a wise man. This company has a great product, they already have a few FTSE 100 companies signed up for their products and am sure there will be more contract wins to come.

if it is not too much trouble can you mention whcih FTSE 100 companies signed up their product?

Eckoh Technologies Plc

Eckoh signs exclusive contract to provide hosted telephony services to Vodafone Rapide corporate customers* 1-year exclusive contract for any Vodafone Rapide 'Virtual Event' using Eckoh's speech recognition and IVR capabilities.* Astra Zeneca, Barclays and Whitbread are already signed up for the Vodafone Rapide 'Virtual Event' service

Eckoh Technologies plc (Eckoh), Europe's largest speech application serviceprovider, today announces a 1-year exclusive contract with Wire-e, leadingdeveloper of business software tools, for the provision of speech recognitionand IVR services to corporate customers of Vodafone's Rapide 'Virtual Event'.Wire-e, who has an exclusive agreement to supply Vodafone with Rapide, wanted to expand and enhance the range of services they can offer. They selected Eckoh astheir long-term partner because of the breadth of speech recognition and IVRsolutions that were available, the speed with which these could be deployed andthe size of the call-processing platform on which the applications were to behosted.The Rapide service, which is designed for Vodafone business users on the move,offers a suite of products which includes having a personal assistant managingyour contacts and numbers, sending emails that appear as if they were sent byyou, sending voice messages to groups of people and recording voice broadcastsfor others to dial into. Rapide is accessed by calling 1500 on a Vodafone mobileand there are currently over 300 corporate customers who are signed up to theservice.The first 'Virtual Event', which went live on October 15th with Astra Zeneca,allows corporates to upload audio broadcasts remotely onto Eckoh's system andthen invite selected parties to access the broadcast by alerting them with anSMS containing the access details. Other corporate customers including Barclaysand Whitbread have also signed up to use this service.Nigel Shanahan, Managing Director of Wire-e said: 'Vodafone Rapide is used bymany of the UK's largest companies who not only expect the product to be of thehighest quality and reliability but also continuing to innovate. This is why wechose Eckoh, to provide us with market leading hosted solution capability and acreative and responsive delivery team. In addition, with regulations tighteningon mobile use in cars, the ability to use speech recognition instead of thephone keypad becomes vital going forward when designing services for businessusers on the move, and Eckoh gives us the capability to deliver on this withconfidence.'Nik Philpot, Chief Operating Officer of Eckoh Technologies said: 'We are veryhappy to announce another important contract for Eckoh Speech Solutions withthis exclusive agreement with Wire-e. The Rapide service has to satisfy not onlythe high technical standards of Vodafone but also the long list of FTSE 100companies who utilise it, so we are very pleased to have been selected as theexclusive supplier to this audience. The reaction from customers to the launchof the 'Virtual Event' service has been extremely positive and we are veryexcited about other product launches we have planned with Wire-e.'

For further information, please contact:Eckoh Technologies
Tel: 08701 100 700 Martin Turner, Chief Executive Officer, Nik Philpot, Chief Operating OfficerBuchanan Communications Tel: 020 7466 5000Mark Edwards/Jeremy Garcia

Notes to Editors About Eckoh TechnologiesEckoh Technologies plc designs, builds, hosts and manages Speech Solutions forlarge corporations and organisations using ASR (Advanced Speech Recognition) andIVR (Interactive Voice Response) technologies. It is a leading UK serviceprovider and infrastructure owner/operator, and intends to exploit theanticipated growth in demand for Speech Solutions across Europe.In January 2003, Eckoh signed a landmark deal to create an exclusive speechalliance with BT to provide hosted speech recognition solutions to theircorporate client base over the next 2 years. A two-year contract with TDWaterhouse for a speech recognition share check service was announced by BT andEckoh in October 2003.In June 2003 Eckoh enlarged its call processing infrastructure to 7,000 lines(capable of handling 500,000 calls an hour) by installing another platform intoa BT hosting facility. This created the largest speech enabled call processingplatform in Europe.Eckoh has secured contracts to supply hosted Speech Solutions to clientsincluding Virgin Mobile, Centrica, William Hill, Wyevale Garden Centres and theRNIB.Eckoh also operates the following businesses:* IVR - provides managed IVR and SMS services to media clients including GWR, Channel 4, Chrysalis, Endemol, EMAP, Johnston Press and Cartoon Network. Following the acquisition of Intelliplus plc in Sept 2003, Eckoh's IVR operation is one of the largest providers in the UK.* Network Services - under the 'Symphony' and 'Freecom' brands, Eckoh supplies fixed line and mobile telephony services, broadband and data services to SMEs in the UK and Ireland. Following the acquisition of Intelliplus Network Services now has an SME customer base of over 13,000.In the year to 31 March 2003, Eckoh generated turnover of #55.1m.To hear a demonstration of Eckoh Technologies' speech recognition product range,dial 08701 100 600. Further information can be found at www.eckoh.com.

Wouldn't be surprised if ECK's next deal in the pipeline is with Orange or T-Mobile.

Legins, doesn't the term exclusive apply both ways? ie vodafone cannot use another supplier and eck cannot supply a vodafone competitor?

Great thing about ECK is that you can buy it in your ISA (provided you have some funds built up there!)

Additional Listing : 63,770 shares @ 0.25

Dec 15

Interim results

Analysts meeting 9.30

Arlington Group

Sold 7,250,000 = 2.76

However,no of holdings left = 6,661,000 = 2.54

Wonder why they have disposed of so many shares. I hope it is because they need the cash and nothing to do with the results coming out in Dec.

Just an OPINION :
I think there is nothing to worry about i.e.they still have 6,691,000/2.54 p.c

Has anyone any ideas what the results might be?

yes but the Dow finish strong, so this should reverse in a while (hopefully). We should see the FTSE rising again.

HERALD INVESTMENT TRUST 21st november bought 1,750,000 shares and now holds 18,770,000 shares 7.15%.

This purchase by Herald Invt must be good for the share price surely? This stock has not done much for a couple of weeks.

Not sure what the results will be like when it comes out in a couple of weeks. Anyone any ideas?

Herald Investment Trust are obviously expecting good results otherwise it would be rather foolhardy to buy this close to the results date.

ticker, I think the 1.75mln buy of Herald Inv is part of the strategy of ETQ to fund a vigorous publicising, marketing and sales campain of the stand alone portable Nightingale UVGI units.

As perhaps you may know, ECK's management want to get the Nightingale out in the market and being used as quickly as possible. Hence the reason they focused on the two stand-alone portable models first.

The cost of upgrading an existing air conditioning system in large buildings e.g. hospitals etc., would mean an extremely long lead-in time for the budgets for these types of contracts to be approved. This is because it is not just a simple matter of adding the filters to the air conditioning ductwork system but also to lower the position of the air extraction inlet and sanitised air outlet grills from ceilings to extracting air from floor level and deliver sanitised air at desk / standing zone of a room. Therefore, it would be sometime before sales for UVGI filters in existing air-conditioned systems for public, commercial & industrial buildings would show to build-up. New buildings in the future may well be designed to incorporate the Nightingale UVGI filters in new air conditioning systems but this will not happen overnight.

In the mean time, the stand-alone portable Nightingale UVGI filters are an immediately effective air sanitation unit that can work alongside air conditioning systems or on their own. These units give ETQ & UVGI a much faster route into the market and show its products effectiveness. The unit which will be on trial with NHS sometime next month will mean that relative quickly they will not just be accredited by Porton Down 'Dstl' but also by the U.K. public health authorities.

UVGI believe that the first companies to buy & make use of the filters is the Food Processing and Co's in industry, Insurance Co's in commerce & Passenger Cruise Lines Co's in Travel/Leisure industry.

I would have thought that it is near to the time UL labs in USA will have completed tests and accredited with approvals for entering that market. Certainly I think the City has some knowledge and confidence in this coming to fruition and news of this could be any time but are waiting for this to come out before the share price will begin to head north.

Legins,

a little late night confusion over ETQ and ECK me thinks? Given that i also own both it was interesting for me but perhaps baffling for others. worth reposting on th eother board though.... I took the liberty of doing this for you

global nomad

Thanks for your post GN. I was rather confused when I started to read Legins recent post.

Anyhow, I still think ECK is a good company with excellent products. I will hold onto my shares for the time being.

Any other supporters out there?

i alao holding ECK