Berendsen not too sexy for its shirt

Berendsen is one of those work-a-day companies that never seems to elicit much excitement, and so it proved again with a subdued reaction to a solid set of interim figures.

Berendsen is one of those work-a-day companies that never seems to elicit much excitement, and so it proved again with a subdued reaction to a solid set of interim figures.

The top line may have fallen 2% in the first half of 2012 to £488.2m from £495.9m in the corresponding period of 2011, but with the effects of acquisitions and exchange rate fluctuations factored out, revenue rose by 2%.

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