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Breedon Group: results better than expectedBreedon (LON:BREE), the leading construction materials group, has continued to deliver an encouraging trading performance since demand began to return in early May. Revenues for the first eight months of the year were £531m (2019: £624m), including a one-month contribution from the recently acquired CEMEX assets in the UK. Unlike many businesses they are now able to reinstate guidance for the 2020 financial year and currently anticipate delivering second-half underlying EBIT broadly in line with the second half of 2019, this would deliver a result in excess of full-year expectations – consensus expectations are for…