Avon Rubber issues confident outlook

Avon Rubber lifted full year profit and underlined its confidence in future trading by increasing its dividend payment 20 per cent.

Avon Rubber lifted full year profit and underlined its confidence in future trading by increasing its dividend payment 20 per cent.

The group, which makes high tech rubber-based respiratory protection to military, emergency and industrial markets, said pre-tax profit rose to £11m for the year ended September 30th 2012 from £10.2m the year before. Revenue slipped to £106.6m from £107.6m previously.

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