The IT services provider is doing well in Germany and France PASCAL PAVANI/AFP/GETTY IMAGESComputacenter, the IT services provider, said it would return £100 million to shareholders in the fourth quarter as it confirmed that it is on track for a record performance for the year. Shares in the company, which is based in Hertfordshire and is one of the UK’s top listed technology companies by market value and a big player on the continent, were more than 13 per cent higher at £10.09 in late afternoon trading on the London Stock Exchange after it reported a 15 per cent rise in first-half revenues to £1.7 billion. Its pre-tax profit doubled to £47.5 million. The group had faced headwinds in Germany, its single biggest market, since 2014, but the year has started strongly in the territory as clients accelerated…

Source: The Times August 25, 2017 10:52 UTC