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4Imprint - Strong sales growth from existing customers

April 2014

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  • Epic Code:
  • FOUR
  • Price:
  • 695p
Full year results capped an outstanding year for 4Imprint with revenues, pretax profit and eps up 16%, 36% and 45% respectively. Net cash was £15.8m.With its UK business, SPS, having being sold in February for a net £5.8m the group is now more attractive to investors as a pure play on its direct marketing business, which supplies promotional products such as fleeces, pens and key rings to corporate clients. 96% of its revenue is from the US, where turnover grew 15% to almost US$295m, hugely outperforming its market, which grew 5%, while operating profit soared 36% to £12.5m. Helped by a 10% increase in marketing spend orders from new customers grew 8% (including 145,000 new customers) while orders from higher margin exis ...

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