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Fugro collects and interprets data related to the earth\'s surface and the soils and rocks beneath. On the basis of this data the Company provides advice, generally for purposes related to the oil and gas industry, the mining industry and the construction industry.

Fugro operates around the world at sea, on land and from the air, using professional, higly-specialised staff and advanced technologies and systems, many of which have been developed in-house.

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Antwort auf Beitrag Nr.: 32.913.211 von vendaro am 02.01.08 10:57:45

Fugro’s target is to achieve a structural increase in earnings per share for its shareholders. Fugro’s long-term policy is aimed at generating a steady growth in net profit by both improving the net margin and increasing turnover. To achieve this a clear and consistently implemented strategy for all stakeholders is vital. Fugro is aiming for a net profit margin of around 10% of turnover.

Other important financial targets are:
maintaining a healthy balance sheet and solvency (30 – 35%);
a strong cash flow with an average annual growth per share of 10%;
a healthy interest cover of more than 5 (EBIT/Interest)and
a growth in earnings per share averaging 10% per annum.
Fugro’s financing strategy is aimed at the utilisation and/or optimisation of:
the ratio between risk and return of the various business activities;
the relationship between shareholders’ equity and short-term / long-term loans;
the use of both public and private capital markets;
the duration and phasing of the different financing components.
The transition to IFRS has not had any influence on Fugro’s (financing)strategy, operational development and cash flow and does not materially alter the historic picture of Fugro.

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Antwort auf Beitrag Nr.: 32.913.221 von vendaro am 02.01.08 10:58:50

LONDON, December 19 (newratings.com) - Analyst Quirijn Mulder of ING Financial Markets maintains his "buy" rating on Fugro NV (ticker: F3D). The 12-month target price is set to €67.5.

In a research note published this morning, the analyst mentions that the FY09 prospects for the seismic industry seem bright and the industry may continue to perform well in FY10. Fugro has a new fleet and sound contracts and appears poised to take advantage of a recovery in the seismic market, the analyst says.

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Antwort auf Beitrag Nr.: 32.913.211 von vendaro am 02.01.08 10:57:45

SA/GULF OF MEXICO: Panasas Inc., a provider of parallel storage solutions for the high-performance computing market, boosted Fugro's seismic application performance by five times through implementing Panasas ActiveStor Parallel Storage. The Panasas parallel storage solution allows Fugro to more quickly deliver geophysical data to the company's exploration and production customers.

Pansas explained, "The processing turnaround time and the quality of raw data are crucial elements in helping Fugro and its oil and gas customers create a business advantage. This deployment of Panasas parallel storage has improved the performance of Fugro's Linux clusters, allowing the data-intensive applications to run faster, and leading to faster discovery, development and ultimate delivery of oil and gas to the global market."

Matthew Grey, Unix/Linux systems manager at Fugro, said, "Currently, we're using Panasas storage for a survey project of the entire Gulf of Mexico, and it requires the collection and manipulation of a tremendous amount of data. Previous direct attached storage and NFS-based solutions were taking too long to complete jobs because multiple users accessing the same storage resources brought our seismic application performance down to a crawl. By switching to Panasas storage, we have boosted our performance by a factor of five, allowing multiple users working on the same project to access the cluster without response time degradation."

The Panasas ActiveStor Parallel Storage Cluster with the Panasas DirectFLOW protocol delivers the performance that Fugro requires for its seismic processing because of direct access between the Linux cluster nodes and Panasas storage. The direct path eliminates the delays that are normally associated with traditional storage solutions based purely on NFS. The additional time can be devoted to imaging and interpretative operations which can lead to more informed business decision-making and higher profitability.

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Antwort auf Beitrag Nr.: 33.364.909 von vendaro am 14.02.08 11:07:02

14.04.2008 19:10
ING takes a 9.64 pct stake in Fugro

AMSTERDAM (Thomson Financial) - ING Group N.V. (News/Aktienkurs) has taken a 9.64 pct stake in Fugro N.V., (News) according to filings with the Dutch stock markets regulator AFM.

Cornelia Messing; [e-mail]

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