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Dunelm - Proposes a 21.5p special dividend

March 2010

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Dunelm has announced it is returning £43m or 21.5p per share to shareholders by way of a special dividend. Dunelm generated £52.5m cash in the first six months of the year to end December, taking its cash balance to £59.2m - so it can easily afford it.The H1 results themselves were excellent with overall sales up 26% to £254m or up 15.4% on a like-for-like basis. This included eight days trading from the winter sale (traditionally Dunelm's biggest trading days), compared with only two last year and stripping out the effect of the winter sale days, like-for-like sales grew 13.2%. Adjusted pretax profit was up 69% to £46.2m with earnings up 67% to 15.9p. Gross margin increased by 2% to 48% and operating ...

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Dunelm - Proposes a 21.5p special dividend

March 2010

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