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At some stage, the equity analysts, shareholders, fund managers, commentators and so on will want to be asking not “where’s your cost cutting or capital return plan?”, but “where’s your growth plan?” As business responds to trends that foreshadow sustainable increases in demand and incomes, some of the response will come from smaller and newer players.