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Majestic Wine - Acceleration in store opening programme

December 2010

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  • Epic Code:
  • WINE
  • Price:
  • 382p
Latest interims to 30 September are at the top end of expectations with like-for-like sales growth of 7.6% and overall profits up 20% to £7.3m. Eps were 8.3p. Most of the strong performance was down to the change to a minimum order of six bottles and the demise of various off licence operators as a result of the recession. This culminated in a massive uplift in new customers with 496,000 active ones on the database, up 14% year-on-year. The lowered minimum bottle level drove a 19% increase in transactions albeit unsurprisingly a 7% decline in average sale to £122.  The core UK Majestic chain grew sales by £9.4m to £106.5m underpinned by the 7.6% like-for-like growth and two new stores also ...

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