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Investment: Special factors help Parity get ahead in IT

LIKE MOST companies in the information technology sector, Parity has enjoyed meteoric growth over the past few years. The market has warmed to its combination of systems integration and an IT staff agency business, marking the shares up by a factor of seven since 1993.

Although the shares have come off the boil in the past few months as fears of a downturn have set in, you wouldn't know it from Philip Swinstead, Parity's ebullient chairman.

Reporting pre-tax profits up 54 per cent to pounds 8.75m in the first half, Mr Swinstead was pouring scorn on those who say IT is still a cyclical business that will suffer first in a recession.

His view is that IT contracting is now an accepted part of ...

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