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Norcros - Another acquisition

May 2016

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  • Epic Code:
  • NXR
  • Price:
  • 177p
Ahead of reporting on 14 June, Norcros said trading for the year to end March was marginally ahead of expectations and marks its seventh year of consecutive growth.    UK revenue is up 9.3% reflecting a first time contribution from Croydex (+2.9% organic). The South African business continued to perform strongly recording 15% constant currency revenue growth.Separately, Norcros announced the acquisition of Abode, a designer and distributor of kitchen and bathroom taps and kitchen sinks. For the year ended June 2015, Abode had sales of £9.9m and pretax profit of £0.7m. Norcros has paid £4.8m making the deal eps enhancing.Post the deal net debt is £33m. Norcros also announced that a ...

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