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Laura Ashley - International franchisees continue expansion

December 2011

Investing in shares may lose you all or some of your money. Past performance is no indication of future performance. Some of the shares recommended here may be small company shares, which can be relatively illiquid and hard to trade and this makes such shares more risky than other investments.

  • Epic Code:
  • ALY
  • Price:
  • 20p
You could easily think that an iconic English brand like Laura Ashley is just too big a business to outperform. Yet despite being a household name in home furnishings and women’s clothing in the UK as well as internationally, the brand appears to be so much bigger than the business with sales standing at less than £290m and its market capitalisation barely £145m.Perhaps the current low rating has something to do with the strongly Malaysian flavour to the Board. For the last 13 years the business has been controlled out of Malaysia by conglomerate MUI and its billionaire chairman, Tan Sri Dr Khoo Kay Peng. Since 2005, its various chief executives have also been Malaysian including the present one, Lillian Tan and as she rarely ...

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