Financial Highlights
System sales increased by 14.0% to £668.8m (2012: £586.5m)
Profit before tax, including Germany and Switzerland, of £47.6m, up 1.9% (2012: £46.7m)
Profit before tax, excluding Germany and Switzerland, increased 11.6% to £55.2m (2012: £49.5m)
Adjusted diluted earnings per share, excluding Germany and Switzerland up 10.3% to 25.6p (2012: 23.2p)
Like-for-like sales growth of 7.0% in 670 UK mature stores (20122: 5.2% in 612 mature stores)
Earnings per share (pre-exceptional items):
o Diluted earnings per share up 8.6% to 23.9p (2012: 22.0p)
o Basic earnings per share up 8.1% to 24.0p (2012: 22.2p)
Statutory basic earnings per share 10.7p (2012: 19.0p)
Pre-tax exceptional costs of £27.5m of which £26.5m relates to impairments and other exceptional charges within our German business
Final dividend increased by 11.4% to 8.80p per share (2012: 7.90p) bringing the total dividend for the year to 15.90p per share up 9.7% (2012: 14.50p)
57 new stores opened in the period (2012: 69 stores) with four closures (2012: two) resulting in a total of 858 stores in four countries as at 29 December 2013
Online system sales increased by 28.2% to £338.0m (2012: £263.7m) with online sales accounting for 61.5% of UK delivered sales (2012: 56.1 %). Of this, 30.9% of online orders were taken through a mobile device (2012: 19.7%)
