Why you should buy this UK manufacturer

Tom Bulford profiles a UK firm that makes most of its products here, and generates 70% of its sales abroad. What’s more, it comes with a tasty-looking dividend yield…

Portmeirion is a company that defies most preconceptions of what should make a successful British business. Apart from its well known ceramic designs, it also sells glassware, textiles, placemats, trays and candles.

Now you would think that such a business would just about manage to struggle on if it had everything made in the lowest cost manufacturing country it could find, and sold it back to loyal UK customers who did not mind paying a bit over the odds.

Subscribe to MoneyWeek

Subscribe to MoneyWeek today and get your first six magazine issues absolutely FREE

Get 6 issues free
https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/flexiimages/mw70aro6gl1676370748.jpg

Sign up to Money Morning

Don't miss the latest investment and personal finances news, market analysis, plus money-saving tips with our free twice-daily newsletter

Don't miss the latest investment and personal finances news, market analysis, plus money-saving tips with our free twice-daily newsletter

Sign up

Tom worked as a fund manager in the City of London and in Hong Kong for over 20 years. As a director with Schroder Investment Management International he was responsible for £2 billion of foreign clients' money, and launched what became Argentina's largest mutual fund. Now working from his home in Oxfordshire, Tom Bulford helps private investors with his premium tipping newsletter, Red Hot Biotech Alert.