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Majestic Wine

February 2015

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Interims last month showed pretax profit fell 11% to £8.5m on sales that rose almost 3% to £134m. It would have been better but for one-off investments in a new head office, IT and distribution centre. Meanwhile Lay & Wheeler, which sells wine en primeur or “in bond” for investment and longer term drinking, reduced profits from £575,000 to just £127,000 but that reflected a weak 2013 Bordeaux vintage.However, the core business is still growing with the number of customers on its database purchasing over the last 12 months increasing almost 2% to 643,000 while average spend per transaction rose £3 to £130. Four new stores started trading in H1 and a further five opened by Christmas ...

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