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Geest - Growth in convenience foods

July 2003

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Geest, a leading player in the supply of fresh prepared foods, looksset for another period of rapid growth, thanks to a surge in demand forconvenience foods.  Geest has already taken advantage of the supermarkets commitment to increasing shelf space to capture the lucrative growth opportunities from fresh prepared foods, as its recordof growing earnings by more than 10% every year between 1996 and 2001 will testify.  Although this run was abruptly ended last year because of an unusually wet spring which affected salad sales, this wasa one-off blip and the shares have started to establish a new uptrend.  But there's a lot more to come, given that Geest trades on a prospective PE of just 10.2, which is way below the high tee ...

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