Small caps round-up: Netcall, Animalcare, Porvair...

Also covered by this round-up are: Oxford Pharmascience, Planet Payment, Hydro International, and International Greetings.

Netcall, a customer engagement software provider, has continued to trade strongly in the second half of the year, seeing growth across all markets. In particular, the company says it has seen a strong increase in cross and up sales, reflecting the growing value attributed by its customers to its enlarged product portfolio. The company continues to benefit from cost management and efficiency programmes and the board expects the trading results for the year to be at the top-end of market expectations.

Veterinary products group Animalcare has warned that the impact of the weak revenue trend in companion animal identification means that profit before tax is now expected to be materially below market expectations, with second half pre-tax profit now expected to be similar to the first-half. This is partly the result of the fact sales in its companion animal identification business in the year-to-date are around 32% lower than the comparable period and that it expects sales in this area will remain subdued for the rest of the current financial year. The core veterinary business is performing in line with expectations, with revenues in the year-to-date around 4.0% higher, and excluding the effect of the temporary supply disruption of Buprecare ampoules, the progression in veterinary medicines is around 15% above last year. The group retains a confident outlook and has implemented several measures to improve gross margin in 2013 and beyond.

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