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November 2020

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.

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  • BAR
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  • 120p
Full year results are nothing to write home about. Following the sale of the contract manufacturing side last August, the remaining cosmetics brands are sub-scale. On a continuing basis, they made a pretax loss of £0.8m on sales of £16.3m.UK sales declined by 16%, dragged down by H2  COVID-19 disruption, customer store closures and some de-listings. International sales declined by 24% following the heavy impact of currency devaluation in Turkey, the effect of increased tariffs on cosmetic goods shipped from China to USA and the impact of COVID-19 across several of its markets.Quentin Higham joined from Yardley of London in May and his plan is to take sales to £50m in five years. There is £18m net ...

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