21.   Specialist firms maintain order in trading, and collect commissions for matching stock trades.

22.   The agency group also includes various communicationstreams, such as specialist healthcare firm Healthcom Gracie, retailspecialist AdTown, the direct marketing arm and Consensus Research.

23.   Specialist firms have lost valuable customers who normally come from far afield for their products, and sales representatives cannot get round their clients.

24.   The platform topside, comprising the water injection modules and one power generation module, would be engineered together with a water treatment specialist firm, Serck Baker Ltd.