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Ramsdens - FX volumes climb as travel resumes

February 2022

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Ramsdens has reported its results for the year to end September with a pretax profit of £0.56m. Comparisons are against an 18 month period in the prior year, which had been extended due to Covid so are not especially meaningful. Additionally, pretax profit is distorted by £1.5m received from furlough and also the business rates moratorium on some of its 153 stores (+2 on the year). It’s therefore perhaps meaningful to compare FY21 gross profit to the pre-pandemic FY19 year, when gross profit was £37m versus £22.3m for FY21. Most of the gross profit shortfall has come from the FX side, which provides holiday money to travellers and has seen gross profit £10m lower than pre-pandemic levels at £3.4m. As travel resumes, this will swi ...

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