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UP Global Sourcing

December 2020

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I spoke with managing director Andrew Gossage shortly after UPGS put out results for the year to end July, which recorded a 6% sales decline to £115.7m. It was certainly a year of two halves. H1 had seen 3% sales growth. H2 was then hammered by store closures during Covid lockdown (March, April and May) and although trading normalised in June and July as stores reopened and retailer purchasing restarted, H2 sales were still off 16%. But UPGS has got through the lockdown with verve and ease. Normally I might have expected a 6% sales decline to be magnified into a 12% profits drop, but UPGS ebitda dropped by only 3.3% to £10.4m and Gossage explains that this all boiled down to significant productivity improvem ...

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