Coats Group - Building Industrial momentum

FY17 results clearly demonstrate that Coats Group’s industrial operations have good momentum and a transformation plan is to enhance this further over the next couple of years. Group earnings and free cash generation were both up by double-digit percentages in FY17. While partly anticipated in the current rating, we believe that Coats is focusing on faster-growing segments and, having clarified group pension requirements, has the financial capacity to achieve this in a number of ways.