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Umeco - Buoyant new business pipeline

March 2004

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  • UMC
UMECO is a leading provider of value-added distribution and support services, predominantly to the aerospace and defence industries. Its business involves the supply and management of high volume, low value aerospace products to customers who require greater efficiencies in their supply chain and reductions in their commitments to fund inventory.   Umeco was a stockmarket darling in the late 1990s when the group benefited from an outsourcing trend in the aerospace industry.  Much of its work was historically underpinned by long-term contracts and this was the force behind the relentless surge in its share price from 88p in 1990 to peak at 672p in 2000.  Although they subsequently retraced to a low of 165p ...

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