The company's operating profits topped £50m last year as its strategy of improving margins and focusing on markets in the UK, Indonesia and Nigeria paid off. PZ Cussons has invested more than £14m in its factories in Nigeria over the past two years and last week announced a joint venture to invest a similar sum in a factory producing evaporated and powdered milks. Mr Green said: "We have always maintained our faith in the future of Nigeria in spite of some difficult times there. "There is no better way of reflecting our confidence than with these considerable investments." In the UK, the business has increased sales of Imperial Leather by a third and has significantly improved its profits. Its bathtime range is targeting the market leader, Radox.