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Mayborn - Portolio constituent has gained 146%

November 2003

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Mayborn's interim results for the six months ended June, which we briefly touched on last time, showed a massive 132% leap in pretax profit to Â£2.92m, for earnings up 134% to 8.9p. Apart from a Â£0.6m gain from favourable exchange rates (strong Euro, weak Dollar) the rest was all organic, and came mainly from Mayborn's babycare products division, where operating profit nearly trebled from Â£0.9m to Â£2.6m. This has been driven by both lower costs, following the outsourcing of its manufacturing to China and top line growth from Sangenic, its patented nappy wrapper and Tommee Tippee, its leading brand of feeding equipment, soothers and monitors. The latter benefited from good performances by its Easiflow cup as w ...

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