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Patisserie Holdings - Gain to date: 139%

July 2018

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  • Epic Code:
  • CAKE
  • Price:
  • 488p
Patisserie produced strong interim results, slightly ahead of expectations with revenues increasing 9% to £60.5m and pretax profit up 14.2% to £13.6m. Eps was up 13% to 8.9p.Revenues from the Patisserie Valerie brand rose 13% to £45.8m driven by nine new outlet openings (including two relocations) taking the total to 206 outlets and it’s on track to open 20 for the full year. Three of the new stores were in Debenhams, including Liverpool, Glasgow and Wigan, which are trading well. Impressively, average new store payback is still just 23 months.Online sales rose 65% to £2.6m while the supply agreement with Sainsburys is building well with counters in 31 stores in addition to 14 click and collect l ...

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