Azlan Group Plc’s shares went for a Burton last week, and the company stepped in to try to limit the damage on Friday with a statement that results for the first half of the year should show operating profit of UKP1.2m on sales of UKP37.7m, in line with management expectations, and should show a gross margin of 25%; it reiterated earlier statements that the UK saw a slow start to the first half but that benefits of reorganisation and improved management were beginning to show.
