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For the Year Ended 30 June 2016
Record order inflow and growing mix of SaaS contracts
Netcall plc (AIM: NET), a leading customer engagement software provider, today announces its audited results for the year ended 30 June 2016.
Financial Highlights — Record order inflow in the year and trading in line with management expectations: …

GBP1.5m Contract Win
Netcall plc (AIM: NET), a leading customer engagement software provider, is pleased to announce that it has secured a minimum GBP1.5 million contract with a FTSE 250 company. The company is an existing customer of Netcall's business process automation product. The new five year contract is for the delivery and use of Netcall's Liberty omni-channel Contact Centre, Unified Communications, Workforce Optimisation and Customer Experience Manager solutions. Each module will be delivered using the Liberty Software as a Service (SaaS) model. …

Current trading is in line with the group's expectations for the six months ending 30 September 2016. …

James Halstead plc, the commercial flooring manufacturer and distributor, will be announcing its preliminary results for the full year ended 30 June 2016 on Monday 3 October 2016….

GSK today announces that Emma Walmsley, currently Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of GSK's Consumer Healthcare division, is appointed GSK CEO Designate and will succeed Andrew Witty as GSK CEO, when he retires on 31March 2017. Emma will join the GSK Board of Directors from 1 January 2017…

H1 2016 trading was slightly ahead of management's expectations despite the decline in revenue to GBP25.9m (H1 2015: GBP56.5m) as a result of…

Acquisition
Sprue is pleased to announce details of the acquisition of source code and development rights to software developed by Intamac Systems Limited (“Intamac”) (the “Intamac Software Acquisition”). …

The company achieved a positive total return. The performance against the FTSE 100 was disappointing, but reflects certain portfolio characteristics, specific market circumstances and the impact of falling bond yields on the market value of the company's debt. This is explained fully in the investment performance commentary on page 5, with an attribution analysis set out below.

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