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Billington - Record order book for structural steel supplier despite Brexit uncertainty

August 2019

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  • Epic Code:
  • BILN
  • Price:
  • 324p
I have to confess I was surprised that I had not come across Billington until my meeting with the company last month. Billington’s mainstay is the design and fabrication of structural steel, making it like larger quoted rival Severfield PLC (SFR; 65.5p), which I first looked some 10 years ago.The reason I didn’t know about it was that for years the business was buried inside the conglomerate known as AMCO. In 2008, AMCO ended up selling all its non-core operations, which comprised construction, manufacturing and property investment and development businesses, to private equity and Billington was adopted as the name for the remaining structural steel and engineering parts.Billington has just announced a record set ...

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