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Devro - Fast growth returns

December 2004

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  • Epic Code:
  • DVO
  • Price:
  • 119p
It may not appear an exciting company but Devro (119p), the supplier of sausage casings with a 50% share of the world market, looks poised for a second phase of growth. The first was in the mid-90s when the shares commanded a PE in the mid 20s and traded over £3 but a period of high growth was followed by a setback following a disastrous acquisition in 1998 of Teepak, a maker of cellulose used for cooking hot dogs and skinless sausages. That business was finally sold in 2001.Nowadays, Devro makes most of its profit supplying collagen. Collagen is a by-product of the leather industry and when blended with certain ingredients, forms a gel which can be extruded into casings used for sausages or the films used to package hams, s ...

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