7th Jul 2016 06:19
LONDON (Alliance News) - Associated British Foods PLC on Thursday reported growth in revenue in the first 40 weeks of its financial year and said its full-year outlook has improved due to sterling weakness after the UK's European Union referendum.
AB Foods, which owns discount fashion retailer Primark, as well as British Sugar, along with agriculture and consumer goods businesses, said group revenue in the 40 weeks ended June 18 grew by 1% year-on-year.
AB Foods said the third quarter experienced a particularly strong performance, achieving 7% sales growth, due to a translation benefit from the weak pound against most of the company's major trading currencies.
"Following the result of the EU referendum, sterling has weakened further and at these rates we expect a bigger translation benefit in the final quarter with no material transactional effect. As a result, our outlook for this financial year has improved, and we no longer expect a decline in adjusted earnings per share for the group for the full year," AB Foods said in a statement.
By Karolina Kaminska; [email protected] @KarolinaAllNews
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