... the UK market. 'Products made by the company are the vital ingredients that add value to customers' products and processes' (Annual Report, 2001) 2001 saw the transformation of the business in to four main business 'segments.' These include: * National Starch - Immense product range across many markets including adhesives, speciality starches, synthetic polymers and electronic and engineering materials. * Quest - Vital ingredients for food and fragrance concepts and provides solutions for fast moving consumer goods. * Performance Specialities - Products that deliver special effects and influence how products feel or perform. * Paints - Paints that aim to inspire consumers to transform their surrounding with performance products and colours. At the beginning of the year, the company had debts of £2.9bn. In attempt to reduce this, a rights issue was announced to raise £834m (Pandya, 2002). This meant that the num.ber of shares rose from 728m to 1.2bn. As a result share price ...

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