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B&M European Retail

January 2015

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  • Epic Code:
  • BME
  • Price:
  • 285p
ollowing our main write-up on discount retailer B&M its results disclosed little in the way of new detail. Revenues and EBITDA rose 30% and 34% respectively to £740m and £73m, the latter £2m ahead of Numis’ forecast.UK like-for-like sales grew 4.8% while gross margins rose 0.8% to 34.7%, driven by better buying, lower mark-downs in non-grocery and a strong sell through in gardening / outdoor.As Numis notes the outlook is encouraging as the pain of price deflation for the big chains is forcing them to seek to offload capacity and B&M is in talks with 8 national retailers to acquire some of their space. Encouragingly, it has even revised up its new store opening target from 40 to 50 outlets for n ...

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