Primary Recommendation

Styles & Wood - Big outsourcing opportunity

March 2007

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The days when retail giants would have their own property team to manage the process of opening new stores are long gone, another consequence of the corporate urge to outsource in order to cut the wage bill. This has opened up a terrific opportunity for recent new issue Styles & Wood, which provides a one-stop-shop service exclusively to very large retailers, helping them through the process of planning, design and fitting out new and existing stores. Styles & Wood’s management team, who we met with recently, were particularly confident that they would be able to continue their remarkable 12 year run of growth, which has seen sales increase from £28m in 1994 to a forecast £264m in 2006, while operating p ...

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