Brammer outperforms improving markets

Industrial engineering products distributor Brammer said it was seeing improving conditions in most of its activities and making its own market share gains as it reported trading ahead of expectations this year so far.Sales grew by 18.5% compared with the same period last year, Brammer, which operates in the UK and elsewhere in Europe, said. The company is also bullish on future trading."May has started well and we expect to achieve further strong sales growth as a result of market share gains during the rest of this year," the company said. "We believe all of our markets are now in growth and that our rate of market share gain has increased."---RG