Comment: C&C keeps its fizz as shares rise almost 50 per cent

Shares in beverages group C&C have risen by almost 50 per cent since the company finally floated on the stock exchange in May 2004. The stock has outperformed the Iseq, which is up over 30 per cent in the same period.

Some of the outperformance can be attributed to catch-up as C&C was floated at the lower end of the expectations of its then British private equity owners, BC Partners. But it would ...