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Poundland

February 2015

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Shares in discount retailer Poundland perked up after interims came in slightly ahead. For the six months to end September turnover and pretax profit rose 15% and 34% to £528.2m and £12.6m respectively. Operating cash flow rose 31% to £20.8m, reducing net debt to just £4.4m.With consumers continuing to dessert established supermarket chains for the discounters in search of value for money deals, Poundland’s like-for-like sales grew 4.7%, while it also opened a net 28 stores costing £9.9m (mostly in retail parks) taking the total to 556. For the full year it should open 60, while it also now has three stores in Spain. To cope with this expansion last September it opened a third purpose built 350,0 ...

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