Markets
Our core markets, in particular education and health, remain government priorities and, whilst there will be stricter budgetary controls over many areas of the public sector, the commitment to raise quality and improve value for money will be an important driver of growth for our consultancy, support and delivery services.
Our public sector clients face significant reform agendas and increasing pressures to improve performance and develop more integrated solutions to address the key issues of public policy.
Our ability to combine deep domain expertise with a broad service offering positions us well to support our clients’ objectives.
In the six months ended 30 June 2008, 96% of our revenue was from the public sector.
Our principal markets were education 49%, central government 16%, health 13%, housing and regeneration 11%, and local government 7%.
Overseas work comprised less than 1% of our revenue during the period. However, we expect that figure to increase during the second half of the year as we develop our international activities following the acquisition of HELM Corporation.
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