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Gear4Music

December 2017

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Following its terrific update last month, Gear4Music, the online retailer of musical instruments, announced interims showing revenues rising 44% to £31.2m, driven by rising website traffic and improving conversion rates. EBITDA fell 46% to £720k but that’s actually ahead of Panmure’s forecast for £571k as it successfully navigated a period of high investment, mainly the two new distribution centres in Sweden and Germany and investment in its e-commerce platform.Highlights include a 27% increase in unique website visitors to 7.1m, an increase in conversion rate from 2.38% to 2.84% and a 5% rise in the average order value to £131.70. There was also a 44% jump in active customers to almost 391,000.< ...

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