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Real Good Food - Shares are due for a bounce

October 2005

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Following Real Good Food’s acquisition of sugar merchant Napier Brown Foods, we spoke to chairman Pieter Totte about the rationale for the deal which has transformed the scale of the business. Real Good Food’s annualised pretax profit is now expected to increase from £3.2m to £16.3m, although earnings will be pegged back because of the 385% increase in the issued number of shares to 68.3m. The latter also swells its market value to £87m. Totte notes that the central part of Real Good Food’s strategy has been to establish greater scale in the food industry as a whole and across the three food sub-sectors of retail, food service and industry. Napier Brown effectively provides all of this by streng ...

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