Finsbury Food upbeat even as it flags inflation and driver shortage

(Alliance News) - Finsbury Food Group PLC on Monday posted full-year revenue and profit growth ...

Alliance News 20 September, 2021 | 8:46AM
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(Alliance News) - Finsbury Food Group PLC on Monday posted full-year revenue and profit growth and remained confident in the face of headwinds such as driver shortages.

Revenue for the year to June 26 rose 2.3% to GBP313.3 million from GBP306.3 million. Finsbury highlighted an "extremely positive" second half performance, with revenue up 9.1% year-on-year.

The company said retail sales performed well, helping to compensate for a shortfall in foodservice sales, which represented a fifth of the group's total pre-Covid revenue.

"Although foodservice was slower to recover than originally anticipated as a result of the timing of restrictions, the majority of the shortfall was recovered in the course of year. This resulted in revenue growing versus last year but still slightly below pre-Covid turnover," said Finsbury.

For the financial year ended June 2019, revenue amounted to GBP315.3 million.

Pretax profit for the recently ended financial year shot up to GBP17.0 million from GBP2.9 million. This was helped as the company notched a gain of GBP958,000 from administrative items, swinging from a loss of GBP10.3 million the year before. The profit figure topped 2019's result of GBP13.6 million.

The company recommended a full-year dividend of 2.4 pence, versus nothing paid out the year before.

Finsbury said it remains confident over its growth prospects, though noted headwinds such as inflation and driver shortages.

Chief Executive John Duffy said: "Whilst we are likely to face persistent challenges around inflation and skilled labour and driver shortages, our long-term growth ambitions remain unchanged. We are committed to making Finsbury an even more efficient and joined-up business, focused on driving synergies and scale benefits across the group."

It will maintain a focus on delivering organic growth and look to capitalise on some "emerging opportunities", such as more at-home lunchtime eating.

Shares in Finsbury were up 0.3% at 95.26 pence in London on Monday morning.

By Lucy Heming; lucyheming@alliancenews.com

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