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Shoe Zone

February 2016

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  • Epic Code:
  • SHOE
  • Price:
  • 211.5p
We spoke with the Smith brothers, Anthony and Charles, the day Shoezone released results for the year to end September. The year saw a strong recovery from the weak H1 to a “normalish” H2  (est H1 like-for-like -4.5%, H2 +2%) and consequently Anthony Smith notes that it has ended the year with like-for-like sales -1% and a fairly clean stock position. The company resisted the urge to discount heavily and more direct sourcing (up to 62% of sales) generated decent gross margins (61.5% vs 61.3%). Overall, then, it managed to almost play catchup during H2 and recorded sales down by 4% to £166.8m with pretax profit also down by 3% to £10.1m. Eps was 16.2p.The company continued to massage down store numbers t ...

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