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Supergroup - Upmarket clothing firm accelerates overseas growth

January 2014

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.

  • Epic Code:
  • SGP
  • Price:
  • 1256p
Finding a successful formula in the world of fashion can bring staggering riches to investors. For instance, in the UK shares in Ted Baker, famous for its loud and quirky designs, have rocketed from £6 to more than £22 since 2011 while across the pond in the US shares in “preppy†retailer Abercrombie & Fitch have risen seven-fold between 2000-2007. Another clothing firm that has the look of a â€multi-bagger†is Supergroup, which has chiselled a niche selling T-shirts, hooded tops and jackets with a novel mix of American fabrics fused with Japanese design. After initially soaring from 550p to over 1800p various growing pains, including the inability to integrate a new warehouse, pricked the early euphoria. However, as finance di ...

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