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4imprint - Shares hit new high

October 2012

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  • Epic Code:
  • FOUR
  • Price:
  • 332p
With three directors buying shares 4imprint has stormed to a new high of 340p, a bullish signal, which has coincided with highly impressive interim results. These covered the six months to 30 June and showed revenues up 17% to £88.4m, while underlying pretax profit rose 26% to £3.3m. Helped by the £24m disposal of Brand Addition and after plugging a hole in its pension fund net cash rose to £11.4m. 4imprint's main business is now its North American-based direct marketing division (92% of group revenues), which supplies a wide range of promotional products such as t-shirts, fleeces, sweaters, pens, bags and badges which are used by companies at trade shows or as a promotional give-away item. This side achieved a 12% jump in ope ...

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