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Computacenter eats recession for breakfast

Computacenter's half yearly results show a slight fall in turnover but a big jump in profits, as the firm's cost cutting programme starts to bear fruit. Even perpetual bugbears - their businesses in France - are showing signs of turnaround. France cut its losses by 25 per cent and grew revenue by 2.2 per cent, mostly due to …

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Surely "Computacenter eats credit crunch for breakfast" would be the obvious choice?

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Big surprise

They've shed a ton of staff so saved some money - held onto most of their service contracts (for the time being) so revenue has barely dropped. Not a big surprise to see that their profits have increased, in the short term.

I wonder what their SLAs and customer satisfaction levels are doing? I wonder what their revenues will be like this time next year.

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