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Cranswick - Shares heading towards £50!

September 2024

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On almost all measures of relative strength, shares in meat processor Cranswick have been on a tear; I originally wrote them up in 2001 at 284p and again at 1158p in August 2013. In the past 18 months alone they have gained over 50% and now stand at an all-time high of £47.50. When the weather really warms up (like now) this meat processor typically does well from a spike in its gourmet sausages for barbeques while England’s run to the finals of the European Championships may have boosted its smaller foodservice business, which supplies pubs and restaurants. But the main part of the business, which sells fresh pork, convenience, gourmet products and poultry to supermarkets such as Tesco, Sainsburys, M&S, the Co-Op and discoun ...

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Cranswick - Demand for its meat rockets as people forced to eat at home (May 2020)

Cranswick - Terrific 182% gain (January 2020)

Cranswick (September 2018)

Cranswick - Shares hit high of 3502p (July 2018)

Cranswick - Ahead of expectations (March 2018)

Cranswick (February 2018)

Cranswick (September 2017)

Cranswick -Shares break through £30 barrier (July 2017)

Cranswick - Another acquisition (February 2017)

Cranswick (October 2016)

Cranswick - Remarkably resilient share price (August 2016)

Cranswick - Shares hit Â£25 after acquisition (June 2016)

Cranswick - 10% volume growth in Q3 (March 2016)

Cranswick - Shares break through Â£19 for first time (February 2016)

Cranswick - Sales ahead of expectations (November 2015)

Cranswick (October 2015)

Cranswick - Shares soar over Â£16 for first time (July 2015)

Cranswick - Recovery of operating margins (January 2015)

Cranswick (July 2014)

Cranswick (May 2014)

Cranswick - Revenues up 13% (March 2014)

Cranswick - Supplier of premium pork products doing well from horse meat scandal (August 2013)

Cranswick - Sales of premium pork products soaring (January 2008)

Cranswick - Excellent earnings record for premium pork product supplier (September 2006)

Cranswick - Competition starting to ease (July 2003)

Cranswick (January 2003)

Cranswick - Gaining selling space at Sainsbury's (September 2002)

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