Gamble of the week: high-growth retail support business

Our gamble this week is an automated materials handling company, which supplies flexible warehouse systems to major retailers to streamline their online sales operations.

As you're no doubt aware, most high-street stores are on their knees. Even the likes of Marks & Spencer, Starbucks, Dixons and B&Q are suffering as tighter credit conditions force consumers to cut back. However, there is one vital differentiator between the retail winners and losers: online sales. According to CapGemini, the internet now accounts for about one pound in every seven spent in Britain, while globally e-commerce is set to grow by an average of 16% a year until 2011.

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Paul gained a degree in electrical engineering and went on to qualify as a chartered management accountant. He has extensive corporate finance and investment experience and is a member of the Securities Institute.

Over the past 16 years Paul has held top-level financial management and M&A roles for blue-chip companies such as O2, GKN and Unilever. He is now director of his own capital investment and consultancy firm, PMH Capital Limited.

Paul is an expert at analysing companies in new, fast-growing markets, and is an extremely shrewd stock-picker.