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Jack Summers, Research Assistant at JM Finn looks at Cranswick in depth.

Henry Birt, Research Analyst at JM Finn looks at Melrose in depth.

William McCubbin, Assistant Research Analyst at JM Finn looks at luxury group LVMH in depth.

When Intuitive was founded in California in 1995, the field of robotic-assisted surgery (RAS) was conceived.

Danaher was established in 1984 and initially consisted of a group of discrete manufacturing businesses.

There is a lot of doom and gloom around the UK economic outlook currently. Yet, there are bright spots, such as discoverIE which is one of the fastest growth stories within the industrial sector of…

Raytheon Technologies is an American aerospace and defence business split 45% aerospace, 55% defence.

Sonova is a Swiss hearing aid manufacturer, founded in 1947.

Edwards are the leading player in the treatment of structural heart disease and hemodynamic monitoring, the physics of how blood flows, with 97% of product sales coming from #1 global market share…

Hill & Smith began its life when Henry Smith began working for Edward Hill leading to the establishment of the company originally known as Hill’s Ironworks in 1824.

Spirax-Sarco’s roots date back to London in 1888, during the second industrial revolution, where it was an importer of steam traps (a valve that filters out condensate).

Starbucks started life in Seattle in 1971, not as a coffeehouse serving brewed coffee, but as a retail store that sold premium coffee beans and roasting equipment to consumers and businesses.

Johnson Matthey (JM) is a global chemicals company and leader of sustainable technology. Its aim is to use science to research, develop and deliver technologies to help build a cleaner world, make a…

Alphabet is the holding company created by Google in 2015 to provide investors more transparency into Google’s operations and give Google’s earlier stage companies, ‘Other Bets’, greater space to…

In recent years, Nestlé has increasingly positioned itself as a ‘nutrition, health and wellness’ company. Its product segments are Beverages (24% of revenue), Nutrition & Health Science (18%), Milk…

Novo specialises in protein-based medicines. By product segment, revenues split into Diabetes (81%), Obesity (3%), Haemophilia (9%), Growth Disorders (6%) and Other Biopharmaceuticals (1%).Diabetes…

With an increasing importance being placed on healthcare globally, along with a growing and ageing population, few industries offer such large market opportunities. Few however, have such high…

I have, broadly speaking, two options as to how I might act on this view to make profit; find a friend that is willing to take the other side of my bet, called an over the counter (OTC) wager or to…

On 6th December 2017, Whitbread became one of those companies when US-based hedge fund, Sachem Head, took a 3.4% stake (albeit through derivatives) and demanded a break-up of the FTSE 100 giant.

With more than 750,000 hotel rooms in 100 countries, Intercontinental Hotels Group is one of the largest global franchises today.

They now have more than 18.6m customers on their database, 12m subscribers to their MoneySavingExpert.com weekly email and had interactions with nearly 85% of UK adults in 2016.Price comparison…

Their largest business division is Companion Animal Products (CAP) making up circa 53% of the group revenue. This essentially is made up of drugs for dogs and cats treating a variety of ailments from…

Strategy is an easy word to toss into conversation, but few have a precise and clear understanding of what it means.

With over 60% of its revenues derived from the US, Hunting has significant operating leverage to any recovery in either shale or conventional oil and gas activity.

As has been experienced in post-war Japanese society for instance, rapidly Westernising societies have an established tendency to alter their drinking patterns towards established Western brands.…