Secondary Recommendation

Filta - Fast growing franchise operation

December 2016

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.

Old timers will recall Lincat, which used to make high quality light catering equipment (such as deep fat fryers, food preparation equipment and pan washers), was a stellar performer many years ago. I had initially thought of it as being a rather dowdy business but Lincat demonstrated an ability to trade through recessions, won huge orders, had excellent profits and a rapidly climbing share price. If anything, my misconception at the time had been the fact that I hadn’t appreciated just how many commercial kitchens there were across pubs, hotels, restaurants, hospitals, schools and fast food outlets, who would buy their products. The current suggestion is that there are 75,000 food service businesses in the UK and 625,000 in the US ...

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