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Communisis

April 2014

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Communisis has reported its full year results. Sales were up 18% to Â£270.1m with pretax profit up 16% to Â£13.3m. Adjusted eps was 4.2p.The main success driver wasnâ€™t the design or production arms. Instead, it was the deployment side, which delivered just about all of the growthâ€“ this is a portfolio of businesses that are involved in the management of third party supply chains for Proctor & Gamble (P&G) in 15 countries. Divisional profits went from Â£4.3m to Â£9.5m and contribution margins doubled to 17% (2012 8.6%). Chief executive Andy Blundell says this was mainly due to higher margins on fee based activities, together with the benefit of certain performance related gain-share arrangements. Any investor is bound to ...

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