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Luceco - Moots acquisition of European wiring accessories business

October 2020

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Plans to reduce overheads had been laid well before coronavirus entered general circulation and consequently Luceco entered H1 in brilliant shape. As a result, although H1 sales were down 13% to £71.6m, due to COVID-19 impacting the supply of product out of China, it was offset by gross margin improvement and overhead reduction, leaving H1 adjusted operating profit 25% higher at £9m. Having withdrawn its final dividend in the light of COVID-19, it has now paid a catchup with two interim payments totalling 3.2p.I had a really interesting conversation with chief executive John Hornby. He points out that the improving gross margin (fourth successive half year of improvement, up 3.4% to 38.4%) is partly down to ...

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