All Financial Results articles – Page 232
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P&H increases tobacco sales by 5.7% to £3.2bn
Palmer & Harvey's sales increased 5% to £4.23bn in the year to April, with tobacco sales up 5.7% to £3.2bn.However the wholesaler said it made just £500,000 pre-tax profits in the same period, leaving it with a margin of 0.01%.
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JJ’s profits £3m higher than forecast
JJ Food Service has made a profit nearly £3m higher than predicted. Pre-tax profits at the London-based food specialist fell 3% to £8.3m for the year to March, but this was £3m more than expected following a period of major investment in the...
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Cook franchisees set for bumper profits
Cook franchisees could earn more than £40,000 in their first year of trading, the frozen ready meals retailer has claimed. The chain laid out plans in April to allow other businesses to run Cook-branded stores and last month revealed that its...
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JJ takes hit to online profits as it bids to 'revolutionise business'
Incentivising customers to use its new online ordering service is expected to have wiped almost a third off JJ Food Service's profits.Sales for the year ending April 2009 were expected to have risen 10% to about £130m. But pre-tax profits...
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NewsProfits down but Greene King grabs market share
Brewer and pub operator Greene King has posted a 15% drop in full-year group pre-tax profits to £118.5m, on sales up 1.3% at £954.6m.
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Hall buys plant to lift retailer sarnie profits
Spar wholesaler James Hall & Co has bought a sandwich factory to supply Spar stores in the north of England, cutting Greencore out of the chain.Hall has spent more than £1m buying the plant in Blackpool and seven lorries to help deliver the...
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Baker profits from local touch
A decade after MJ Baker Foodservice started trading, the wholesaler is boasting an impressive 11% pre-tax profit margin by staying true to its roots. Peter Cripps reports
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NewsRetailers reap 90% of trade promotion profits
Retailers pocket 90% of the profits generated by trade promotions, despite manufacturers spending £8bn a year funding the deals.
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Sales at caterer Compass hit by rising unemployment
Catering giant Compass is expected to announce a fall in UK sales for the past six months.
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AG Barr energised by Irn-Bru but water sales dry up
Fizzy drinks fuelled solid growth in profits for soft drinks group AG Barr, despite a flat performance by waters, juices and smoothies.
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NewsSainsbury’s celebrates strong fourth quarter
A strong final quarter has helped Sainsbury’s to report a rise in like-for-like sales of 4.5% for the past 12 months, the supermarket announced today.
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NewsBargain Booze profits from growth of mults
Bargain Booze claims the growth of Tesco Express has helped it to expand its own stores as independent retailers seek a value symbol group that competes on price. The company has opened 60 stores in the past year, many of which it said had...
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Cadbury sales up as chocolate defies credit crunch
Strong sales have helped Cadbury to an encouraging set of full-year results, but warned growth would be at the lower end of its 4-6% growth targets.
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New Netto chief aims to accelerate sales growth
Charles Kay has replaced Richard Lancaster as MD at Netto, The Grocer can reveal.The former European trading director for AMS Sourcing, an international buying group with 11 members including Morrisons and Netto’s parent company Dansk, has...
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Somerfield reports sales growth of 3.7% for Christmas period
Somerfield has emerged as a surprise Christmas winner, posting like-for-like sales growth of 3.7% in the three weeks to 3 January. The figure, which is well ahead of Tesco's 2.5% growth, comes despite a smaller marketing budget than its...
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Fast forecourt work helps boost profits of Snax 24 by 40%
"Speedier shoppers" have helped forecourt operator Snax 24 boost its full-year pre-tax profit by nearly 40% and sales by nearly 20%.Snax 24 group MD Bill Ahearn said sales rose 19% to £228.8m and pre-tax profit by 39% to £3.5m in the year to...
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Greencore hails ‘resilience’ as results conclude costs fiasco
Greencore chief executive Patrick Coveney has hailed “a resilient response to a challenging year” after the convenience food giant announced a rise in sales of 13% to €1.31bn.
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Bakkavör profits less than interest payments on debt
Bakkavör has not made enough money in the past three months to cover the interest payments on its £1.5bn debt and other liabilities, the latest quarterly results reveal.The ready-meals maker, which is a major supplier to M&S, made operating...
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Record sales but profits collapse at Robert Wiseman
Despite rapid sales growth for its healthy ‘the One’ range, rising costs and investment in its new Bridgwater dairy meant profits at Robert Wiseman Diaries fell by more than a third over the last six months.
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Kingsmill helps ABF shrug off sugar slump as sales soar 21%
An "enormously encouraging" improvement at its Allied Bakeries subsidiary capped a strong performance by manufacturing giant Associated British Foods - to offset increased costs at its European sugar business.