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Avon - Another forecast upgrade

December 2010

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  • Epic Code:
  • AVON
  • Price:
  • 212p
A strong set of full year results from Avon, sending the shares up past £2. Overall, revenue was up by 17% to £117m and pretax profit rocketed from £4.4m to £7.1m. Eps was 51% ahead at 21.9p.  Both sides of the business performed very well. The protection & defence side generated an operating profit up 44% to £6.5m on sales up 18% to £90.2m. The US operation grew strongly, helped by continuing supplies of the new generation M50 masks supplied to the Department of Defense (DOD), which represented 74% of divisional sales. The contract has two more years to run and chief executive Peter Slabbert notes that there are now probably some 500,000 masks delivered to the DoD, which is driving sales of spares, as well as filte ...

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