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International Greetings

February 2004

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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  • IGR
Shares in International Greetings, the UK's largest designer and manufacturer of private label greetings products, have convincingly jumped into a higher range following excellent results for the six months to 30 September.  On turnover 9% higher at £53.5m, pretax profit, before an exceptional item, soared 24% to £5.3m.  Earningsalso grew by  24% at 8.8p.   All its core areas arein fine fettle.  Its largest market in the UK benefited fromstrong growth of  licensed merchandise, such as The IncredibleHulk and Finding Nemo after their respective film releases. Meanwhileits smaller US operation also saw good progress thanks to expansioninto the middle mass-retail market, which consists of own-bran ...

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