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December 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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The shares strengthened 9.5p on 11 November, the day that betterthan expected interim results were unveiled. For the six months toSeptember pretax profit was £9.6m and earnings were 5.7p, compared toforecasts of £4.0m and 2.6p, excluding the pension credit and goodwillamortisation.  The difference was due to higher than expected costsavings, an improved performance in the UK dessert business and somedelays in marketing spending in France (around £1.5m).The UK division enjoyed the strongest underlying growth, from £3.5mto £5.8m, with operating margins increasing from 1.8% to 2.9%. Rivals such as Geest enjoy 6% margins, while Northern Foods is on 8.6%,so there is still plenty to go for. Northern Europe grew profit fro ...

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