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Prezzo - Shares storm to new high

May 2011

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The shares stormed to a new high of 67p after Prezzo released strong results and the acquisition of another six leasehold restaurants from Caffé Uno for just £0.55m, adding to last August’s £3m purchase of 11 sites from the same vendor. Results showed a 15% jump in revenue to almost £105m and pretax profit rising 12% to £14.4m. Eps increased 13% to7 4.43p. This beat Numis' forecasts for £13.5m pretax and eps of 4.1p. Part of its growth stemmed from canny two-for-one internet voucher deals. Gross margins soared from 13.8% to 15.4%, with the extra customers making for better overhead recovery of kitchen / waiter staff as well as offsetting the well documented rises in food and other ...

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