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Entertainment One

June 2012

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Speculation regarding acquisitions has overshadowed the excellent full year numbers. Sales were up 7% to Â£503m but an improving sales mix (with digital content doubling sales to Â£66m in particular) led to adjusted pretax profit up 33% to Â£43m. Eps were up 18% to 15.4p. EBITDA was up 23% to Â£52.6m despite additional Â£136m investment pumped into Film and TV productions to increase volumes and diversificationOn the film side, there were 152 movie releases (vs 121) including The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn (the final film in this franchise is in November). Divisional sales lifted by 17% to Â£272m but EBITDA soared by 40% to Â£16.1m helped by the Hopscotch acquisition as well as by a full-year contribution from ...

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