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Dunelm - Confounds doubters as sales, margins grow

December 2018

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  • Epic Code:
  • DNLM
  • Price:
  • 608p
Given the hot, dry summer, investors had started to adopt the brace position but Dunelm confounded with first quarter results to 29 September showing 4.2% like-for-like sales growth, which is pleasing given tough comparables in Q1 ’17 (+9.3%). Underlying store revenues grew 1.3%, while online revenues increased 33.3% and would have been up 50.8% had Dunelm included contributions from tablet-based selling in-store.Total multi-channel revenues (online, reserve & collect and tablet-based in-store) increased their contribution by 3.9% to 14.8% of total sales.Following elimination of lower margin sales from Worldstores, gross margin jumped by 1.3% while on a continuing basis gross margin still improved 0.5%.It has ...

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