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On the Beach - H2 sales up 70% whilst non marketing costs remain flat, electrifying profits

January 2018

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Following the 7% growth in H1, OTB grew sales by an astonishing 70% in H2 - and it did so without increasing its non-marketing costs. Overall as it was, sales for the year to end September were £83.6m, delivering pretax profit up 33% to £28.5m and eps up 35% to 17.6p.Sales in the UK went up 11% to £81.9m (14% excluding Sunshine.co.uk acquired in May, which has been fully integrated onto the OTB platform) and profit was up 38% to £26m. Daily unique visitors to the UK site increased by 13% to 66m. Historically, OTB invested >50% of revenue in marketing but has reduced the cost of customer acquisition (Google cost per click and marketing) thanks to its proprietary bid management software and more visitors na ...

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