An already difficult trading backdrop in recent weeks, materially exacerbated by Toys “R” Us (accounting for c8% of CCT’s total sales) falling into Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on September 18th, has caused our FY18 PBT expectations to fall by 28% to £10.5m (£14.5m), with a base knock-on effect to our FY19 PBT forecasts which are reduced by 19% to £12.5m (£15.5m). The deleverage effect of lower sales with little cost mitigation that can be impleme

11 Oct 2017
Highly prudent view of turbulent short-term backdrop = FY18 PBTe -28%

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Highly prudent view of turbulent short-term backdrop = FY18 PBTe -28%
Character Group plc (CCT:LON) | 241 12.1 2.1% | Mkt Cap: 43.6m
- Published:
11 Oct 2017 -
Author:
Peter Smedley -
Pages:
4 -
An already difficult trading backdrop in recent weeks, materially exacerbated by Toys “R” Us (accounting for c8% of CCT’s total sales) falling into Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on September 18th, has caused our FY18 PBT expectations to fall by 28% to £10.5m (£14.5m), with a base knock-on effect to our FY19 PBT forecasts which are reduced by 19% to £12.5m (£15.5m). The deleverage effect of lower sales with little cost mitigation that can be impleme