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Surrey-based reseller Bytes Software Services (BSS) has had a rather good year, despite some price hikes from its number one supplier Microsoft seemingly dampening margins. In figures filed at the UK’s Companies House, BSS reported turnover of £277m for the year ended 28 February 2018, up 28.4 per cent on the prior fiscal. Did …

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  1. Doctor Syntax Silver badge

    "In figures filed at the UK’s Companies House, BSS reported turnover of £277m for the year ended 28 February 2018, up 28.4 per cent on the prior fiscal. Did someone say software reselling was dead?"

    As soon as I read that I thought a likely explanation was that they'd bought in business by taking over another company.

    Oh look, that's what they did: "Cash in the business dropped by £20.6m, principally to fund the new group acquisition. In 2017, BSS snapped up rival reseller Phoenix Software for £35.9m."

    So how much of that 28.4% was actual growth and how much was acquired?

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  2. 89724102172714182892114I7551670349743096734346773478647892349863592355648544996312855148587659264921

    DIE MICROSOFT

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