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The following is a round-up of earnings and trading updates by London-listed companies, issued on Friday and not separately reported by Alliance News: ---------- Cooks Coffee Co Ltd - Auckland, New Zealand-based coffee house chain under Esquires brand - Pretax profit falls to NZ$68,000 in the six months that ended September 30 from NZ$534,000 a year before. Revenue more than doubles to NZ$5.6 million from NZ$2.6 million but employee costs and other expenses also more than double. The big jump in revenue is from company managed stores in Ireland, following the agreement late last year for Cooks to operate four cafes within Co-Op Superstores owned by Dairygold. Excluding this, like-for-like revenue is NZ$3.3 million, a 19% increase. Total sales in Ireland in the recent half-year are up 27%; they are up 6.4% like-for-like. Total store sales in the UK are up 27% and are up 3.5% like-for-like. Cooks Coffee says it continues to work on its plan to relocate to the UK, as this is its largest market. It aims to have 300 stores in the UK and Ireland by 2034. The company also has a few stores in Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and Portugal. Its first store in India is expected to open before the end of the financial year. Chief Executive Officer Aiden Keegan says the company ‘expects to deliver a robust set of numbers for the full year’. ---------- Caffyns PLC - Eastbourne, Sussex-based car dealership chain - Keeps interim dividend unchanged at 5.0 pence per share despite swinging to a loss. Caffyns reports a pretax loss of £934,000 in the six months that ended September 30, swung from a £213,000 profit a year before. Revenue is down 2.7% to £134.0 million from £137.7 million, while operating expenses are up 4.2%. Underlying earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortisation is £1.7 million, down from £3.0 million. Caffyns CEO Simon Caffyn says the UK motor retail market was ‘particularly challenging’ during the recent six months, but the company has made a number of operational changes to improve performance. ‘Our forward-order book for new cars is at satisfactory levels, although concerns remain over the general economic background and, in particular, customers’ reaction to the government’s November budget,’ Caffyn says. ---------- Ten Lifestyle Group PLC - London-based operator of concierge technology platform that helps financial institutions and other brands attract and retain wealthy and mass affluent customers - Files annual report on Friday. Earlier in November, Ten Lifestyle had reported pretax profit of £2.9 million for the financial year that ended August 31, up from £500,000 the year before. Net revenue rises 4.5% to £65.7 million from £62.9 million, and operating expenses stayed mostly steady. Adjusted earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortisation increases to £14.6 million from £12.8 million, as adjusted Ebidta margin improves to 22.2% from 20.3%. Since the start of the second half in September, trading has been in line with market expectations for adjusted Ebidtda of £15.5 million on revenue of £73.0 million for all of financial 2026, Ten Lifestyle says. Shareholders at a general meeting on October 28 approved changing the company’s name to Ten Technologies Group PLC. ---------- Galantas Gold Corp - developing Omagh project in Northern Ireland and exploring Gairloch project in Scotland - Net loss widens to C$5.0 million, about £2.7 million in the third quarter, from C$740,629 a year before. For the first nine months of 2025, net loss is C$6.9 million, widened from C$3.0 million. Galantas records no revenue, as net proceeds from sales of concentrate are being offset against development assets until commercial production starts. The wider third-quarter loss is due to a C$2.9 million loss on disposal of interest in subsidiaries, compared to no such loss a year before. ---------- Beowulf Mining PLC - exploration for iron ore, graphite, gold and base metals in Sweden, Finland and Kosovo - Reports pretax loss of £339,609 in the third quarter of 2025, narrowed from £408,018 a year before. In the first nine months of 2025, the pretax loss is £1.4 million, marginally widened from a year before. Beowulf has no revenue, so the narrowed third-quarter loss is due to lower administrative expenses. CEO Ed Bowie says the company is making ‘meaningful progress’ across its core assets, the Kallak iron or project in Sweden and the Grafintec graphite project in Finland. ---------- Copyright 2025 Alliance News Ltd. All Rights Reserved.
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