Access Intelligence has five operating subsidiaries:

* The Marketing Guild, based in York, which provides marketing advice
and support to small and medium sized businesses. This is in the form of
newsletters, consultancy, lead generation and member's services.
http://www.marketing-guild.com

* Wired Gov, based in Stockport, provides an online information service
delivering press releases from over 100 government and public sector
bodies. Subscribers can customise the service specifying the agency or
topic they require.
http://www.wired-gov.com

* Backup and Running, based in York, provides an online data storage and
disaster recovery service, which the client can customize to their own
requirements. The service offers significant advantages over other
alternative systems in that it backs up automatically and can provide a
complete backup history for at least three years.
http://www.backupandrunning.co.uk


* Willow Starcom (Ridgeway Technologies), based in Chorley, provides
specialist IT services across a broad range of market sectors that
include data storage, backup and recovery, network design support and
consultancy and hardware and software maintenance support services. It
has growing recurring revenues from these activities of over 1million
per annum.
http://www.willowstarcom.co.uk


* Due North, based in Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, is a developer and provider of
e- commerce solutions, primarily to the public sector and emergency
services. The range of products includes an e-tendering module combined
with an e-auction module.
http://www.due-north.com


Access Intelligence is a group of companies delivering a range of business
critical support services to private and public sector organisations.
The team of Directors, Jeremy Hamer, Brendan Austin, Colin Davies, Ian Savage
and Alwin Thompson, has extensive experience in making successful acquisitions
while simultaneously driving organic growth: in less than two years since
flotation, Access Intelligence has acquired and successfully integrated five
businesses in four different market segments.

The Group Today

Today, Access Intelligence is a technology-based Support Services Business. It
harnesses the power of internet-based Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) to deliver vital information and support services. Specifically these are:

* Digital marketing services and business development support.
* Online and offline data storage back-up and retrieval
* Sourcing and procurement software for both buyers and suppliers in
industry and local government
* Electronic news and current awareness digests of Government initiatives,
policies and finance affecting business, the professions and the public sector

The Business Model

The majority of the Group's income is from repeating revenues delivered through
recurring contracts ranging between one and five years. This model provides
excellent visibility of future revenues and, with effective customer retention,
outstanding gross margins over the longer term.

The Strategy for Growth

The strategy is to acquire businesses which have good management and high growth potential that fit the revenue model while, at the same time, adding value to the Group's existing services.

The businesses acquired will have substantial autonomy to develop within budgets
agreed with the Group Chief Executive and Finance Director, whilst benefiting
from the experience and cross selling opportunities provided by being part of an
expanding group of companies.

At this stage of the Group's development, the Central Group Executive Team,
which is based in York, will be kept to a maximum of four people, including
support staff. The Non-Executive Directors will continue to be involved in
sourcing and evaluating potential acquisitions and monitoring the performance of
the Group.

ditto, how do u work out when or if the mm's are avin a laff or it is genuine???

not good good George as you say but.... good time to get some more... this'll drift for a few months then pick up over the summer towards the next results.. It'll come good.. (imho)

skyhigh, I'm sure it will come good, I am in profit with these but I think there is far more to come imo. I believe it's one of many excellent co's that suffer because they are under researched and not on the map as it were.
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oh, just ignore me why dont ya, im not bitter!

Kivver, I'm not ignoring you, like yourself, I don't know. It would be nice to figure out the MM's mind, perhaps that's the answer - nobody knows.
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After more than 220k buys & no sells we are back to where we started this morning hmmm.
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Looks like people got more and the price went up..Peeps have this on the watch list and are diving in when it drops... as you say.... hmmmmm

lets hope the expectation of this share will be realised i have no doubt the company will flourish but will the market regonise it? Always a danger with smalll cap shares.

encouraging hike in the bid this morning.... wonder what's been going behind the scene this week to make it go up & down like a yo-yo!

Kivver/skyhigh... maybe another acquisition in the wings, on 02/12/05 they mentioned that the pipeline of potential acquisitions remained buoyant and, they still had net cash in excess of 600,000.
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Its the ACC yo-yo effect :)

When they shake it down, then you know there is a buy around, so it will go back up :)

Nice set of results today, good progress and outlook.

Yes... It's looking good ! onwards and upwards..

Yes very promising , we could be looking at eps for the full year of around 0.45p.
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shame about the current sp though... was well up first thing and looking good but has now dropped back.. I bbought in earlier in the yr at 8p so need this to go some to get into profit...

Im looking foward to St Ledgers Day, this should then move up to where it should be.

'scuse my ignorance but why St Ledgers Day (& when is it anyway?)

Hi Sky, its an old saying in the shares world 'Sell in May and go away until St Ledgers Day''. St Ledgers is actually a famous horse race in September. Its meant to reflect the lower activity seen durung the holiday months. Smaller caps often are overseen in these lull times especially in an uncertain market. Is it true???? working lunch programme has a view:-
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/working_lunch/4469277.stm

Nice article on ACC on http://www.growthcompany.co.uk and a "speculative buy" rating.

Yes, good article - thanks Papal... shame about the sp this though... best shape the company has been in and nearly the lowest sp ever !.... Good time to top up me thinks as the future looks good.