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Domino's Pizza - 608 stores now open

February 2010

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In tough economic times Domino's Pizza continues to demonstrate its defensive qualities with Q4 trading showing a 15.6% increase in system sales to Â£112m for the 13 weeks to 27 December. Like-for-like sales in the 501 mature stores rose 8.6% bringing the yearly average to 8.4%. Domino's also made good progress expanding the business with 55 stores opening in the year, taking the total to 608 stores in the UK and Ireland. Even after this investment cash generation was strong enough to return Â£18m to shareholders through a buy back of 2.6m shares for Â£7.6m and dividends of Â£10.4m.Broker KBC Peel Hunt has upgraded pretax profit forecasts 5% to Â£29.5m for 2009, implying 24% eps growth to 13.3p. For this year, it now expects Â£32. ...

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