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Eddie Stobart - Trucking business expanding into e-commerce market

July 2017

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Eddie Stobart Group, a leading light in logistics and best known for its distinctive fleet of red, green and white trucks, was introduced to AIM in April, raising a net £112m new money and valuing the group at £575m. The placing attracted a roll call of top fund managers including Neil Woodford, Axa, Invesco, and Schroders. While the shares have been quiet, its fortunes are very much on the up with pretax profit rising from £23.3m in the period to November ’14 (eight months) to £36.4m in the year ended 2015 and then £41.1m last year.The company’s roots go back to the 1960s but a new era essentially began when it was sold by parent company Stobart, 278.5p (a TMI main write-up on page 1) in M ...

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