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Secondary Recommendation

AG Barr - Irn-Bru owner offers rare buying opportunity

June 2012

Investing in shares may lose you all or some of your money. Past performance is no indication of future performance. Some of the shares recommended here may be small company shares, which can be relatively illiquid and hard to trade and this makes such shares more risky than other investments.

  • Epic Code:
  • BAG
  • Price:
  • 1125p
When we made soft drinks firm Nichols, 708p, a main write-up in May 2010 at 360p we didn't expect a doubler in just two years but driven by the power of its Vimto brand, strong cash generation and the hope that it might be taken over by a giant such as Coca-Cola, that's exactly what has happened. Traditionally Nichols has traded at a significant discount to its larger rival, AG Barr, the subject of this article. But Barr, whose success in turning IRN-BRU into the second most popular soft drink in Scotland led to an astonishing share price surge from 177p in August 2000 to almost £14 in April last year, has seen its shares dribbling back over the past year as changes to the FTSE's free float methodology led tracker funds to reduce their ...

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