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4Imprint

April 2016

Investing in shares may lose you all or some of your money. Past performance is no indication of future performance. Some of the shares recommended here may be small company shares, which can be relatively illiquid and hard to trade and this makes such shares more risky than other investments.

Since we tipped 4imprint at 211p in August 2011, there has almost never been a wrong time to buy the shares. They have been grinding remorselessly higher. Latest results for 2015 show the US direct marketing business (comprising 96% of sales), which sells promotional products (mugs, t-shirts, etc) on an adhoc rather than a contract basis via a million catalogues backed up by e-mails and mailings, continued to forge ahead with group sales up 20% to US$497m. Underlying profit before tax and earnings, at US$33.5m and 88 cents, each rose by 20%. All organic.In total, 945,000 individually customised orders were processed compared to more than 780,000 in the previous year.And as always, strong relationships with partners means most ...

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Judges Scientific - Strong H2 trading

Lakehouse - Founder requisitions EGM

4Imprint (November 2014)

4Imprint (August 2014)

4imprint - 16% growth in the first nine months (December 2012)

4Imprint (June 2012)

4Imprint (April 2012)

4Imprint - Deliberately growing slowly (August 2011)

With small companies there is an above average degree of risk compared to buying blue chips. Please be aware that we have not assessed the suitability of any of these investments for you. The newsletter simply states a personal view and diarises the editor’s investment decisions. Please speak to your stockbroker or other qualified individual to ascertain whether any of these companies mentioned would form useful additions to your own portfolios. Past performance is no indication of future success.

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