THE media-to-metals billionaire Len Blavatnik is scheming Acision, his mobile phone record company, for a �400m batch marketplace levity in London.
The company, paid for out from IT organization Logica for �265m in 2007, is close to appointing advisers and is eyeing a inventory after this year. Acision powers content messaging and provides remuneration systems to mobile operators.
It would turn the ultimate in a line of record firms to make known boyant plans after Promethean, the electronic whiteboard maker, and EMIS, a healthcare IT provider.
Acision has nonetheless to confirm either to press forward with a flotation. Market misunderstanding caused by the Greek mercantile predicament saw Travelport, the airline reservations firm, and wardrobe tradesman New Look lift inventory plans. In the eighteen months to Jun 2008, the last filed accounts, Acisions UK arm reported a pre-tax distinction of �6.2m on sales of �71m.
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