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Wincanton

July 2013

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Wincanton has reported its results for the year to 31 March. Sales were down to Â£1.08bn mainly reflecting the closure of the food services business, which had been hemorrhaging cash and a couple of lost contracts which had reverted back in-house. Pretax profit however came in 11% ahead at Â£32.1m for eps of 19.1p.The core contract logistics business recorded revenues down 7% but the benefits of an onerous lease provision in FY12, cost efficiencies, the closure of the Food Services business, and the introduction of some higher margin services culminated in the margin improving to 4.1% from 3.4% a year ago. New customers were won (including Morrisons, the NHS, CEMEX, Rolls Royce, Sainsbury's, BAE Systems and Valero) and the complet ...

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