Bonmarché is the UK’s largest womenswear value retailer catering for women over 50 years. We pride ourselves on offering quality clothing with appropriate styling, great value and in a wide range of sizes, along with outstanding customer service.

We have won awards for our clothing, winning the ‘Best for flattering fit’ award at the Yours 50+ Fashion Awards 2012. We were also crowned ‘Britain’s Best Women’s Clothing Retailer’ at the Verdict Research Awards 2012 as well as coming second for the nation’s favourite retailer, and most recently in 2013 we were awarded The Yours Magazine 50+ Fashion Awards, where we were voted as “best for knitwear”.

The Bonmarché ladies fashion range includes casual and formal separates, outerwear, dresses, swimwear, lingerie, nightwear and accessories in addition to the exclusive Bonmarché collection by formal Royal couturier David Emanuel.

Our website allows you to shop online for your favourite clothing items and have them delivered to your home or offer a FREE service to your local store with the nationwide Bonmarché collect in store service at over 250 stores. We also offer a telephone ordering service, available between 8am and 8pm, 7 days a week.

Bonmarché was established in 1982 by two brothers who began their business on market stalls and opened their first store in Doncaster. The business expanded very quickly to a portfolio of over 200 stores when they were acquired by The Peacock group in 2002.


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Final results


Financial Highlights:

· Revenue up 8.7% at £178.6m (2014: £164.3m)

· LFL sales growth of 4.0%, 6.0% including online

· EBITDA (before exceptional items) up 13.6% at £15.5m (2014: £13.7m)

· PBT up 55.3% at £12.4m (2014: £8.0m)

· Pre-exceptional PBT up 10.4% at £12.4m (2014: £11.2m)

· PBT margin up 2.0% at 6.9% (2014: 4.9%)

· Pre-exceptional PBT margin up 0.1% at 6.9% (2014: 6.8%)

· Pre-exceptional basic adjusted EPS up 11.3% at 20.7p (2014: 18.6p)*

· Recommend final dividend of 4.5 pence per share, taking the full year dividend to 6.8 pence per share

Operational Highlights:

· Continued increase in market share:

o Share of UK women's value clothing market increased by 12.8% to 4.4% (Kantar)

· Progress made in achieving strategic objectives:

o Successful enhancements to product ranges and prices

o Improvements in multichannel delivered 36% growth in online sales and 32% increase in call centre sales

o Opening of net 29 new stores/concessions in target locations and progress made in roll out of store modernisation programme

o Increased the number of most loyal core customers

o Launched refreshed Bonmarché brand to align with evolving customer base

12 Jun Investec 325.00 Buy
12 Jun Cantor... 320.00 Buy

trading update

19 October 2015

Bonmarché Holdings plc

("Bonmarché" or the "Company")



First Day of Dealings

The Company is pleased to announce that its entire issued ordinary share capital consisting of 50,018,150 ordinary shares of one pence each ("Ordinary Shares") has been admitted to the premium segment of the official list of the Financial Conduct Authority and to trading on the London Stock Exchange's Main Market for listed securities (together "Admission") at 8.00 a.m. today. Trading in the Company's Ordinary Shares on the AIM market of the London Stock Exchange has today been cancelled.

The Company's TIDM will continue to be BON, with an ISIN of GB00BF8H6F45 and SEDOL number of BF8H6F4.

The prospectus published by the Company on 18 September 2015 in connection with the Admission can be found at: www.bonmarcheplc.co.uk.

Bonmarché Holdings plc, one of the UK's largest women's value retailers, announces that it will release its Interim Results for the 26 weeks ended 26 September 2015 on Monday 23 November 2015.

Bonmarche Holdings PLC (BON:LSE) set a new 52-week high during today's trading session when it reached 318.00. Over this period, the share price is up 18.22%.

Unaudited Interim Results
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Bonmarche Holdings PLC
23 November 2015

23 November 2015

Bonmarché Holdings plc



("Bonmarché" or the "Company" or the "Group")



Unaudited Interim Results



26 week period ended 26 September 2015



Bonmarché, one of the UK's largest women's value retailers, reports its unaudited interim results for the 26 week period ended 26 September 2015.



Financial Highlights:

· Total revenue up 6.5% at £97.0m (H1 FY15: £91.1m)

· Store LFL sales growth of 2.0% for H1 which includes LFL growth of 6.1% in Q2, showing improvement in LFL sales over last three quarters

· Profit before tax of £5.4m, £6.4m on a pre-exceptional basis (H1 FY15: £6.4m)

· Basic EPS was 8.4p (H1 FY15: 10.5p)

· Pre-exceptional basic EPS was 10.5p (H1 FY15: 10.5p)

· Strong cash generation, with net cash of £18.6m at the half year end (H1 FY15: £12.6m)

· Interim dividend of 2.5 pence per share (H1 FY15: 2.3 pence)





Operational Highlights:



· Brand & customer acquisition:

o Appointed new Multi-channel & Marketing Director and strengthened teams in these areas

o Launched test TV advertising campaign to introduce Bonmarché to a wider audience

· Product development:

o Increased fashionability - using cues from customer responses to David Emanuel ranges, continued the extension of contemporary handwriting across main BM ranges

o Overall LFL improvement, particularly in coats and knitwear where we have de-seasonalised transitional ranges

· Channels to market:

o Opened 8 net new solus stores/concessions and full year programme on track

o Programme under way to modernise store fascias with new branding; 140 to be refreshed by the year-end

o Roll-out of personal shopping service well received by customers

o Fully responsive website launched in July 2015





Beth Butterwick, Chief Executive of Bonmarché, commented:



"Bonmarché's performance for the first half of the year has been satisfactory and we have made further progress against our strategic objectives. I am pleased with the improvement in store like-for-like sales, which is a testament to the value of our loyal customer base, in a market which remains challenging. I am also pleased with the progress being made by the new marketing and multi-channel teams to turn around online sales.



Trading conditions during November have been challenging, due to very mild, wet weather. Our expectations for the full year remain unchanged, provided that trading conditions normalise for the remainder of the financial year."

23 Nov Canaccord... 325.00 Buy
23 Nov Investec 325.00 Buy
23 Nov Cantor... 350.00 Buy

Company News

Bonmarche November trading hit by mild weather but FY expectations unchanged

Mon, 23 November 2015



Bonmarche November trading hit by mild weather but FY expectations unchanged
(ShareCast News) - Women's value retailer Bonmarché said its expectations for the full year remain unchanged despite challenging trading conditions in November due to very mild, wet weather.
For the 26 weeks to 26 September, the company posted pre-tax profit of £5.4m, down from £6.4m the previous year, hit by costs relating to the listing of its shares on the main market of the London Stock Exchange from AIM.

Revenue rose 6.5% to £97m, like-for-like sales grew 2% and Bonmarché declared an interim dividend of 2.5p per share, up from 2.3p the previous year.

Chief executive Beth Butterwick said: "Bonmarché's performance for the first half of the year has been satisfactory and we have made further progress against our strategic objectives. I am pleased with the improvement in store like-for-like sales, which is a testament to the value of our loyal customer base, in a market which remains challenging.

"I am also pleased with the progress being made by the new marketing and multi-channel teams to turn around online sales."

At 0917 GMT, shares were down 4.8% to 280p.

Back to square one.

DC - do you still follow these?

The dresses would not fit me skinny. :-)) . Had a few in the early days of the thread, have not followed them.

:-)

TRADING UPDATE

Bonmarché, one of the UK's largest women's value retailers, presents its trading update for the 13 and 39 week periods ended Saturday 30 December 2017, and confirms that the Board's profit expectation for the year remains unchanged.



Sales for the 13 weeks ended 30 December 2017 decreased by 5.5% against the corresponding period in FY17. Store LFL sales decreased by 9.7% and online sales increased by 28.5%. Sales for the 39 weeks ended 30 December 2017 increased by 0.9%; store LFL sales decreased by 2.8% and online sales increased by 35.5%. The table below summarises the figures and for reference also includes the figures for the five week period ended 30 December 2017.

Anticipating the continuation of difficult market conditions during our third quarter, we adjusted our stock purchasing plans, and therefore the level of discounting was reduced compared to last year, resulting in a slight improvement in the gross margin percentage. Meanwhile, costs have been tightly controlled, and the Company's financial position remains sound.

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Trading Update

52 week period ended 31 March 2018

Bonmarché, one of the UK's largest women's value retailers, presents its trading update for the 52 week period ended 31 March 2018 ("FY18"). The Company is pleased to confirm that, reflecting the good progress achieved during the financial year, the FY18 profit before tax will be in line with the Board's expectations.

Online sales maintained the strong growth seen throughout the financial year, against comparatives that became more difficult in the fourth quarter. Store sales performance was disappointing, reflecting the issues more widely reported in the clothing market.

Whilst total sales for the year therefore declined slightly, the gross margin percentage was resilient. The lower headline gross margin that had been anticipated due to adverse FX movements, was largely mitigated through tight stock control and improvements to the loyalty scheme, which led to lower discounting. There were also significant overhead cost savings, delivered through improved operational efficiency and reduced, but more effective, marketing expenditure.

The Company's financial position remains sound.


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