Primark boosts AB Foods profits
PRIMARK’S budget clothing continues to be popular with shoppers, helping owner Associated British Foods to yesterday predict its full-year profits will be “substantially ahead” of last year’s haul.
Sales at Primark will be up 17 per cent year-on-year, but AB Foods – which makes Kingsmill bread, Ovaltine drinks and Twinings tea – will book a £100 million writedown on its Australia meat unit.
Shore Capital analyst Darren Shirley, who forecasts group profits of £970m for this financial year, described Primark as “possibly the most potent retail format in the UK and increasingly Europe”.
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