In the last set of accounts the chairman, Peter Hill-Wood, forecast turnover of £350m from developments at the old stadium site, Highbury Square, and nearby Queensland Road.
Laura has grown the company to a forecast gross turnover of £43m in the current financial year, employing more than 500 people.
■ The same firm, run by Zenna Atkins, the former chair of Ofsted, hopes to make an "impact in a positive way" on the lives of 250,000 children over the next five years, while Wey's broker forecasts a turnover of £17.5m by 2014 and a £9.9m "bottom line", through providing services in the UK and abroad.
Meanwhile, rising numbers of small firms complain that they "hardly have access any more to credit and reasonable development capital", said Mr Reich this week.A survey of Mittelstand companies, by Creditreform, a commercial-debt advisory group, shows that a slight upward trend in expectations last year has been thoroughly squashed: forecasts of turnover, employment and profits have fallen.
Prior to this update we had been forecasting £215m of turnover implying an average monthly rate of £17.9m.
And Stefan Siegel, the site's co-founder and a former Merrill Lynch investment banker, forecasts that the £150,000 turnover it generated last year could soon triple.
Nearly four years on, things look a lot brighter: this year's turnover is forecast to reach £120,000 and the couple estimates that the operating profit will be in the region of £75,000.
News Corp forecasts next year's Fox Interactive turnover to approach $1bn, $800m of which will be MySpace.
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