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Character Group - Polaroid cameras selling like hot cakes

April 2003

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Character is a fast growing business which lost its way in 2000 whenit took a massive gamble on Star Wars merchandise. Two poor acquisitions only compounded the feeling of a business in decline when the bet went wrong. But its management has shown a remarkably sure touch in repositioning the company with a transformation coming in the core business from a range of own-developed toys whilst the digital division is benefiting from the (almost global) licence to manufacture and distribute Polaroid digital cameras. In the year to 31August, Character made a pretax profit of £1.5m. Driven by a verystrong product line-up, this year's forecast was upgraded from £2.5mto  £4.0m  (eps 8.2p) in February. But these are proving ...

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