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Trifast - Market remains sluggish

January 2004

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The anticipated recovery in industrial fasteners is taking longer than anticipated, but Trifast's restructuring helped pretax profit improve nearly 12% to £2.2m despite a 3% slip in turnover to £50.3m forthe six months to 30 September 2003.  The most encouraging keynotewas a rise in operating margin from 4.2% to 4.7%.  Meanwhile, net debt only crept up from £10.3m to £10.8m, even though Trifast paid out £1m in deferred consideration for the recent acquisition of European Industrial Services (EIS). One of the key themes in the UK, Trifast's biggest market, is that many of its large manufacturing customers are migrating to lower cost areas, such as Asia and Eastern Europe.  Although Trifast has replaced s ...

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