Struggling Enterprise Computer Holdings Plc was due to report figures on Tuesday, but said then that they would be announced tomorrow. Instead, it yesterday requested that trading in its shares be suspended pending clarification of its finances – a chilling phrase that usually means that a company has reached the end of the road. It promised a further statement later but it never came. The shares were suspended at 3 pence. The bottom fell out of Enterprise’s mainframe broking business as the mainframe went out of fashion, and the company has been trying to rebuild its fortunes on computer training, maintenance and client-server software and hardware; it lost ú2m on sales that plummeted to ú8.2m from ú58.2m for the year to March 1994.
