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October 2021

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.

  • Epic Code:
  • HEAD
  • Price:
  • 492p
The UK flooring market is reckoned to be worth £2bn at wholesale value, with carpet representing over half of the market (57%) and the industry has been perceived as relatively mature, with demand predominantly driven by replacement purchases. Against this backdrop, flooring is not the most obvious space for growth shares.But look at Victoria (VCP; 924p), whose share price has doubled since I made it a NAP in the January issue. Victoria’s transformation is, of course, down to the acumen of CEO Geoff Wilding, who has shaken up the sector by buying a range of once-sleepy, family dominated businesses and revitalising them.These days, Victoria has a few distribution businesses, but for the most part it is a manufactur ...

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