It's been a while since we had a thread that invited schoolboy puns and sniggers, so I give you SSL - Manufacturers of Dr Scholes and of Durex.




RSI just popped up over 30, after a hammer bottom with volume.

Comments invited

In at 290p yesterday. Still on the up. News yesterday states rumor of a possible offer of up to 400p/share. Any views out there?

time to wake up guys and to take your noses out of the pigs' trough of flaky oilies and the like, and take a look ....... still a potential t/o target, and plenty to play for on fundamentals anyway

told you yesterday, and repeat again today ......



black = 200 dma
green = 50 dma
red = 25 dma

As I understand it viagara goes over the counter on Feb. 15th. as well !

SSL International is introducing its Durex Play range of sex toys and lubricants to Ann Summers' 136 lingerie stores this week after earnings from the division more than doubled in the first half of the financial year, as Britons become more adventurous in the bedroom.

The full range of Durex Play vibrators and lubricants are only available at Superdrug's more than 200 stores and online. London-listed SSL will continue to distribute the goods through Superdrug, although some of the products are also sold elsewhere.

In the six months to the end of September Durex Play sales rose 8m to 13m - more than was sold in the whole of the previous financial year.
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Over the past few years SSL has been seeking to expand the Durex brand to more than condoms and be associated not just with safe sex but with better sex.

A spokesman for SSL said: "Basically we are bringing products you normally used to buy in the back street into the high street."

SSL hopes more high street names will join Superdrug and Ann Summers and start selling all its products. Its biggest customer, Boots, does not sell all of the Durex Play range of products.

SSL has also been expanding its Durex business overseas and last month took over the 50pc of its Chinese joint venture it did not own for 19m.

The group said last November that it had been in talks with a number of companies across the globe about possible takeovers.

Durex sales jumped 17.8pc to 90.6m in the six months to September. For the whole of SSL, which also owns the Scholl sandals and footcare business, sales rose 6.8pc to 236.3m.

viagra over the counter from tomorrow (Valentine's Day!) ..... However, will not be supplied to those over 65! ...... downright ageism if you ask me!!

A lorryload of viagara was stolen yesterday.
The driver was found in a ditch gagged and bound.
Police are looking for 3 hard men.

Incredilble chart & with new markets & new products I can't see this slowing down any time soon.
Panmure Gordon target 885p (01.04.10)

Uck me Gausie got one right , lol

:-)

885p broker target reached.

Summary of the Offer

The boards of Reckitt Benckiser Group plc ("Reckitt Benckiser") and SSL International plc ("SSL") are pleased to announce that they have reached agreement on the terms of a recommended cash offer to be made by Reckitt Benckiser plc, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Reckitt Benckiser, to acquire the entire issued and to be issued share capital of SSL.

SSL is a focused consumer products company with leading global brands such as Durex and Scholl, as well as a portfolio of local brands.

Reckitt Benckiser is a world leader in household and health & personal care. The acquisition of SSL provides Reckitt Benckiser with an attractive opportunity to increase its presence in the health & personal care sector.

Under the terms of the Offer, SSL Shareholders will be entitled to receive 1163 pence in cash per SSL Share (the "Offer Price") and will also remain entitled to receive the proposed final dividend of 8 pence per share in respect of the year ended 31 March 2010 (the "SSL Dividend"), representing, in aggregate, 1171 pence per SSL Share.

The Offer Price plus the SSL Dividend values SSL's fully diluted share capital at approximately 2,540 million.

The Offer provides SSL Shareholders with a compelling opportunity to realise full value up front for their investment in SSL in cash."