LONDON (ShareCast) - PuriCore, the developer of natural germ-killing products, is one of the day's fallers. The group said its Sterilox Foods Safety division has extended its contract with one of the top-five US supermarket chains.

The new agreement, worth $8.6m, extends various lease arrangements scheduled to expire between August 2008 and October 2009, to the fourth quarter of 2011.

“The extension of this contract with our largest customer is a testament to the outstanding value our Sterilox Food Safety Systems deliver to supermarket retailers," said chief executive Greg Bosch.

“We continue to anticipate significant top-line organic growth in 2008 that will enable us to achieve additional leverage of our operations and further expand into new markets,” he added.

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