SSL to start selling sex toys

CONDOM maker SSL has excited City interest with plans to add vibrators to its product list.

But chief executive Garry Watts says the company has no plans to start selling more exotic specialist sex toys.

SSL's new range will be 'discreetly packaged' and 'appropriately marketed'. SSL's products will go on sale in High Street stores such as Boots from next year.

It is part of a plan to double earnings in the next three years.

Half-year profits rose 50% to £19m after management took the scalpel to costs.

SSL is also revamping its Scholl sandal range and it will be sold in upmarket stores such as Selfridges and Harvey Nichols.

Analysts believe it is only a matter of before SSL is taken over by a predatory consumer products firm.

SSL investors - who did not receive an interim payout last year - get a 2p a share dividend this time around. The shares fell 1p to 273p on Thursday.