Full year consensus forecasts likely to hold as UK B&M sales UK LFL was +7.7% in 2Q – however, this was achieved with a 80bps decline in gross margin. Overall PBT of £86.8m (+17.8%) was slightly below consensus despite a £2.4m EBITDA contribution from newly acquired Heron Foods. The next key test 3Q trading against start of marketing-driven sales acceleration of 2016/17. Germany had a difficult 1H with EBITDA down 22.5% - this casts doubt on B&M’s ability to ma
