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4Imprint - Deliberately growing slowly

August 2011

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A company growing by say 10-15% in any one year may not seem too exciting but when this performance is compounded over five years it can serve investors well. Indeed the steady paced tortoise that carries on regardless versus the overconfident hare has become a bit of a morality tale given what has been going on in these credit crunch times.One company that has set out to grow deliberately slowly but surely is 4Imprint, which owns a powerful mail order brand of the same name in the US and also a business in the UK selling promotional products to large corporates throughout Europe.Americans and Europeans seemingly just cannot get enough of imprinted promotional goods, which they will use to keep their company brand at the fo ...

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