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Research and Markets: 36 UK Coal Companies Selling at a Loss to Capture Market Share

Posted on: Friday, 16 March 2007, 06:00 CDT

Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c52201) has announced the addition of Coal - Portfolio Analysis to their offering.

The Coal - Portfolio Analysis is a comprehensive evaluation of the UK market. The revised and updated 2007 edition analyses the financial performance of the companies important to the success of your business. Using the most up to date information available, the analysis is ideal both as a tool to benchmark your own company's results and to study the market in more depth. Aimed at the busy manager, the Portfolio Analysis is both quick and easy to use thanks to the unique visual layout. The Analysis lays bare the performance of each company highlighting their strengths and weaknesses. Do you know which companies are best to do business with? Do you know which companies are selling at a loss and whose profit margins are plummeting? Find out the answers to all these questions and more with the newly published Portfolio Analysis.

The report is divided into two colour-coded sections for your ease of use, Sector Analysis and Individual Company Analysis.

Sector Analysis: Sales growth, market share and profitability are all analysed over a 10 year period giving you the fullest picture possible of the health of the market. Companies are ranked on these categories so you can see which companies are outshining the rest. Use the industry average tables to benchmark your own company's performance- how do you compare to the rest of the industry?

Industry Analysis: Each company receives a full page of analysis, evaluating their financial performance over the last five years so you get a full picture of the long term prospects of each company. Each company page of analysis is also packed with the following information: Full business name and address, Names and ages of directors, contact details and website address, seven unique charts showing at a glance the performance of each company, averages for the industry are also shown indicating the bare minimum each company should be looking to achieve, and five years of the latest accounts available.

Over the past 12 months in your industry:

23% of companies are now in financial danger.

36 companies are blatantly selling at a loss to capture market share.

Average pre-tax profit was 5.0%

Average sales growth was 3.1%

180 companies are analysed including:

Maxibrite Ltd

Settle Coal Co Ltd

Mines Rescue Service Ltd

Sheaf Motors Of Coal Aston Ltd

Mining Services Ltd

Shilbottle And Whittle Coal Fund Ltd

Moorside Mining Co Ltd

Silverdale Mine Ltd

Mouldshaugh Farm Ltd

Spectron Emetals Ltd

National Association Of Licensed Opencast Operators (The)

Spectron Group Plc

National Coal Mining Museum For England Trust Ltd

Spectron Services Ltd

North Mid Fuels Ltd

Ssm Coal Ltd

Onyx Land Technologies Ltd

Taylor Woodrow Civil Engineering Ltd

Palco Shipping And Trading Ltd

Tobardyne Holdings

Palmaris Capital Plc

Tower Colliery Ltd

Parkburn Ltd

Tower Energy Resources Ltd

Parkhill 2000 Ltd

Transcor Coal Ltd

Parklands Colliery Co Ltd

Uk Coal Mining Ltd

Perforator Ltd

Uk Coal Plc

Pontardawe Coal And Metals Co Ltd (The)

Vaillant Group Uk Ltd

Potclays Ltd

Vaillant Home Products Ltd

Potters Clay & Coal Co Ltd (The)

W E Dowds Ltd

P&H Mining Equipment (U K ) Ltd

Walter Woodthorpe Ltd

R F Symons Ltd

Welsh Dragon Coal Ltd

Read & Turner (Transport) Ltd

Wessex Capital Ltd

Richards Coal Merchants Ltd

Westland Coal Supplies Ltd

Rig Services Ltd

William Roberts (Rhyl) Ltd

For more information visit http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c52201

Source: Business Wire

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