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IG Design

February 2018

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Trading has been strong up to and throughout the Christmas period and IG Design expects full year eps to be ahead of market expectations. There has been a continued shift in sales mix towards higher margin product categories (eg. single greetings cards) and synergistic benefits from the Lang acquisition. The US is now 42% of total sales and IG is set to benefit from the lower tax rate in due course.Cenkos has lifted its eps forecast to 21.5p for the year ending March and 23.6p next year. A main write up at 64p in August ‘10 and again at 206p in August ‘16, keep on holding. ...

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