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Flying Brands - Listen2Books ahead of expectations

April 2003

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Flying Brands, which has three powerful mail order brands and a niche collectables business, is enjoying a second burst of strong growth. The first came between 1993-7 and this was followed by a periodof near stagnation. But helped by changes in management, the disposal of non-core businesses and better than expected performances in all parts, a new era of strong growth is underway. Over the monthwe met with chief executive, Mark Dugdale, who took the helm inNovember. He knows a good thing when he sees it. The underlyingposition is that the two core mail order brands of Flying Flowers andGardening Direct managed to recruit more new customers in 2002 thanthe previous year following a sharpened marketing effort and are nowgene ...

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