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Mayborn - Another to receive a bid approach

May 2006

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The shares soared near to their all-time high after Mayborn disclosed with its final results that it had received a bid approach. The timing is useful as by Mayborn’s high standards, the results were only par this time. Although turnover increased 30% to £87.2m, the like-for-like element was just 12%, while pretax profit grew 14% to £10.1m. Earnings were 11% ahead at 33.1p, a tad below forecasts. Mayborn’s babycare and children’s products division continued to do well, with sales increasing 43% to £67.3m and operating profit rising 35% to £10m, helped by a first-time contribution from Tube Plastics (TP), the supplier of children’s outdoor play equipment. This performance was driven ...

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