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4Imprint

August 2014

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A business supplying promotional products might be considered a choppy business to be in but 4Imprint has hardly put a foot wrong since we made the shares a main buy at 229p. This month the company issued its H1 numbers. Between 2007-2011 the company had already doubled its profits and it has set out its strategy of doing the same again between 2011-2015, implying a 15% annual clip but if anything the latest results show an acceleration in performance. Helped by its main market in North America demonstrating 6-7% growth, 4Imprint managed to achieve higher than anticipated returns on recruitment whilst re-ordering was also strong. Consequently sales were up 14% to £115m in the six months to end June, whilst pretax profit lifted by ...

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