Financial highlights
Turnover £49.2 million (2012: £43.5 million) +13%
Profit before taxation and highlighted items* £2.8 million (2012: £2.1 million) +33%
Profit before taxation £1.1 million (2012: £0.9 million) +33%
Interim dividend pence per share 0.98 pence (2012: 0.94 pence) +4%
Diluted earnings per share before highlighted items* 2.89 pence (2012: 2.13 pence) +36%
Diluted earnings per share of 1.17 pence (2012: 0.84 pence) +39%
Operating highlights
Academic and Professional business growing
o Division now represents 43% of Group adjusted operating profit (2012: 27%)
o Acquisition of the academic law publisher, Hart Publishing, for up to £6.9 million
o Drama Online subscriptions exceeded expectations
o Winner of IPG Independent Publisher of the Year, Frankfurt Book Fair Academic & Professional Publisher of the Year and Academic, Educational and Professional Publisher of the Year
Adult division excellent first half sales and profits, strong second half list
o The Signature of All Things - Elizabeth Gilbert
o MasterChef: the Finalists
o Paul Hollywood's Pies and Puds
o Tom Kerridge's Proper Pub Food
Bestsellers across the Group include:
o And the Mountains Echoed- Khaled Hosseini
o Crown of Midnight - Sarah J. Maas
o Shh! Don't Wake the Royal Baby - Martha Mumford and Ada Gray
o MaddAddam - Margaret Attwood
o The Bone Season - Samantha Shannon
