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Denise Molina
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U.S. continues to deliver on growth but not on margin.

Along with its first-half results, no-moat Wolseley announced its plan to exit the Nordic region due to the lack of synergies. As we have always been sceptical of the value of carrying these low-margin businesses that lacked distribution and product overlap with its main U.S. business, we were happy to see this announcement. The Nordic business makes up 12% of group revenue but only 3% of trading profit and has had a shrinking top line to boot. We will be reviewing our model for the eventual exi...
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