Rebuffed Rank licks wounds with profit lift
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Rank, which also operates Grosvenor casinos, said pre-tax profits lifted 15 per cent to £85.5 million in the year to end-June.
Revenue edged up 1 per cent to £708.5m while like-for-like sales at Mecca rose 2 per cent. The company added that in the seven weeks to the middle of August trading was “positive and is in line with management’s expectations”.
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Hide AdChief executive Henry Birch said the UK’s recent vote to quit the EU single trading bloc would have “little or no direct impact” on the business.
Birch said Rank was financially strong, had market-leading brands and “a clear strategy for long-term growth”. He said the board of the company continued to look to the future with confidence.