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French Connection

October 2002

Investing in shares may lose you all or some of your money. Past performance is no indication of future performance. Some of the shares recommended here may be small company shares, which can be relatively illiquid and hard to trade and this makes such shares more risky than other investments.

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The market turbulence caused shares in  French Connection tofall through our stop-loss even though six month  results to 31July were strong.  Although turnover rose just 2%, the increase inoperating margins from 9.0% to 9.9% drove  a 20% increase inprofit before tax to £10.3m. Earnings were up 26% to 37.3p.  The best performance came from  UK/Europe, which producedalmost all the £10.8m operating profit, driven by a near doubling inwholesale to £7m.  The latter benefited from management’s closeattention to the buying process to reduce the volume of discountedtrading. The shares have been weak because investors have feared the US economic downturn will lead to substantial losses in the gr ...

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