Secondary Recommendation

Zetar - One of only a few to remain close to its high

August 2006

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.

One of the more lucrative hunting grounds for investors has been the food snacking sector, with buy-and-build confectionery firm Glisten, 327p, having enjoyed a terrific four-fold increase in its share price since floating in late 2002 on the back of a number of bold and canny acquisitions. Another company following in its slipstream is Zetar, a confectionery and snack foods business, whose shares recently celebrated the company’s third acquisition to date and has been one of only a handful of shares to stay within touching distance of its high. For a relative minnow, whose market value is still just £30m, Zetar provides investors with substantial ground floor potential and unusually for such a small company, it also ...

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