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Sruth, Di-ardaoin, 26 latha de’n Og-mhios 1969
Another Takeover
The market will no take
kindly to Allied Ironfounders’
23 per cent fall in pre-tax
profits and Shanks will not take
kindly to a bid which is likely
to value its shares at well under
40s. (
Yet a merger of the two
makes sense. Indeed the offer
by Allied, itself a takeover
prospect, arose out of discussion
between the two on the possi¬
bility of merging their bath
interests, the one field where
they overlap. Severe price cut¬
ting in the bath trade nif Allied
badly in its second half and the
bath division ended by making
no contribution to group profits.
The benefits of extra throughput
in Allied’s highly efficient new
foundry plant would be con¬
siderable. Many of the two
companies’ other products are
complementary and Shanks, a
Glasgow based company, would
gain from Allied’s distribution
network in England, where
Twyfords and Armitage make
much of the running in the
lavatory trade.
Allied may not have tc up its
price much. For Shanks has re¬
cently been suffering from the
bath war even more, though this
has not been fully reflected in
the profits since it reported on
an earlier accounting period
than Allied. Allied have already
forecast an improvement, to
which their new plants should
contribute, and if its shares do
manage to hold up Shanks may
not have too much bargaining
power when the circulars start
appearing.
The views expressed in this news-
paper are not necessarily those
of the publishers : An Comunn
Gaidhealach.
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DUBLIN
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The following letter has been a of real concern among
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‘Your Excellency, guages and cultures.
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League I write in connection the feelings of the members of
with the omission of Irish, the other Branches of the Cel-
Welsh and Scots Gaelic tests tic League by making this pro-
from the GCE examinations in test in the name of this Organi-
London this year.
A meeting of the Irish
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May at which the omissions
mentioned above were inter¬
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languages in the United King¬
doms.
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