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  UPDATE 1-Building products supplier SIG's profit up as UK housing recovers

  Building materials distributor SIG Plc (LSE: SHI.L - news) said full-year underlying pretax profit rose 5.3 percent as the UK residential construction market picked up in the second half of 2013. The company, which operates in Europe as well as the UK, said it expected construction activity in the UK residential market to remain buoyant, with the non-residential sector continuing to be broadly flat. Shares in the FTSE-250 component were down 0.35 percent at 200.9 pence in late morning trading on

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