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Secondary Recommendation

Devro - Best outlook for 4 years

April 2002

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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Devro is the largest manufacturer of edible sausage casings, made from collagen. The company has had a turbulent time over the last four years.  Its  catalogue  of problems, which included a loss-making subsidiary and two major food crises (BSE and Foot-And-Mouth) would have sunk lesser companies. However, that loss-maker, Teepak, was sold last year and  latest results, announced on 13 March, indicate that prospects are much more encouraging for the current year. Devro has built up analmost impregnable position in manufacturing collagen casings, with a global market share of over 50% -  three times the size ofits largest competitor.  Its biggest region is Europe, whichgenerated 55% of the £ ...

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