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BUZZ-Travis Perkins: hits record high on strong Q1 numbers

Reuters - UK Focus

** Travis Perkins Plc (LSE: TPK.L - news) 's shares up as much as 3.3 pct after Britain's biggest supplier of building materials posts a 5.1 pct rise in first-quarter like-for-like sales, driven largely by growth in the general merchanting and contracts units

** Stock, touching a record high, features among top pct gainers on London's bluechip FTSE-100 index

** Counters the fall in the FTSE-350 Support Services index of which it is a component

** Travis Perkins says it is trading in line with expectations [ID:

** "First (Other OTC: FSTC - news) -quarter sales were better than needed to reach our full year estimates... Improvement initiatives continue to come through and we are confident that returns will increase," Liberum's building materials & housebuilders analysts write

(RM (LSE: RM.L - news) : esha.vaish.thomsonreuters.com@reuters.net)