Primary Recommendation

Swallowfield - Son of PZ Cussons building personal care/cosmetics empire

June 2017

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.

In the January issue I included two cosmetic companies amongst my New Year selections, Innovaderma and Warpaint, and in the past few weeks, the share prices of both companies have been on a bit of a tear. A third company that I mentioned in February, Swallowfield, has also begun to move ahead, more slowly because there has been a persistent seller in the market in the form of longstanding shareholder Western Select. Swallowfield is the brainchild of Chris How, a veteran of the sector who has held senior management and sales & marketing positions with PZ Cussons (owner of the Cussons, Imperial Leather and Carex brands) and Colgate Palmolive (Colgate, Sanex, Palmolive). He joined Swallowfield in 2013 and quickly laid ...

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Market Comment - June '17

Idox - To benefit from General Election

Swallowfield - Sale of division leaves 150p cash per share (August 2019)

Swallowfield - Owned brand 65% of group profit (November 2018)

Swallowfield (August 2018)

Swallowfield - Forecasts upgraded (April 2018)

Swallowfield (October 2017)

Swallowfield (August 2017)

Swallowfield - Own brand cosmetics business seeing strong growth (February 2017)

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