Primary Recommendation

Avon Rubber - Turnaround from losses to a Â£3.5m profit

December 2009

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Avon Rubber has a substantial and fast growing opportunity supplying military and governments around the world with a range of gas masks and emergency hoods to offer breathing protection against nuclear, chemical and biological threats. It is a classic world-beater with a record of innovation. The company has been supplying the Ministry of Defence (MoD) with first generation products since the eighties but what led to the astonishing 70% jump in sales from Â£54m to Â£92m last year is a contract with the US Department of Defense (DoD) to supply it with the latest generation of gas mask. As chief executive Peter Slabbert says, this is a hard business to get into and Avon has been working on prototypes with the US milita ...

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