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Bottom Line: De La Rue still hot on the paper trail

De La Rue may have been frustrated in its takeover ambitions but its own business remains in robust health. The banknote printer yesterday reported a 20 per cent rise in annual pre-tax profits to pounds 123.7m. Earnings growth, as measured by FRS3, was even better at almost 29 per cent.

Printing banknotes, cheques and passports throws off more cash than De La Rue knows what to do with. Its net cash inflow in the year to end March was pounds 95m before financing, taking its cashpile to close to pounds 270m. To put this in perspective, this is getting on for half the group's annual sales of pounds 587m.

Little wonder, then, that Jeremy Marshall, chief executive, is looking to do something more ...

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