Science in Sport gets a boost from half-time update

Performance nutrition specialist Science in Sport (LON:SIS) saw its share price increase 4.50% to 62.70p (as of 14:55 BST) after announcing that revenues for the first half of 2019 grew by 152% due to the acquisition of PhD Nutrition and the development of the SiS brand. Management said that like-for-like sales were up by 21% and that the integration of the recent purchases were going as planned.

The company said that trading was on track to meet full-year expectations and that further international initiatives were planned for the current half year.