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LPA Group

December 2013

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  • Epic Code:
  • LPA
  • Price:
  • 64.5p
We’ve had a quick catchup with chief executive Peter Pollock. This follows the £36bn plan to develop the UK's railway infrastructure over five years, which has been announced by Network Rail and will include 4,100 new railway carriages and upgrades for a further 1,400 carriages. Stemming from this LPA has won a contract with Hitachi Rail which is building a number of new intercity trains -initially LPA won the contract for LED lighting for 596 Class 800 trains (£5m) and has subsequently won the contract to supply electrical umbilical (£3m). Better sales, better gross margins and contained overheads will lead to a much sharper increase in profits in due course, but with only one broker covering it, nobody has been looking at the tran ...

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