Latest garden retail company results: who has done best and why?

摘要

Medium-sized groups in the ￡20m-￡100m bracket such as Klondyke, Hillier, Squire's, Notcutts and Blue Diamond look to have done best as 2017 results are released.Turnover at Klondyke Strikes has increased by 11 per cent to ￡53.8m in the year to 30 September 2017. Like-for-like sales at the 22 centres, including the redeveloped Garforth Garden Centre, were up 4.4 per cent. Gross margin was up 1.3 per cent to 52.8 per cent. EBITDA was up ￡l.lm to ￡6.2m. Pre-tax profit was up ￡0.9m to ￡4.9m.