Taking the Beard Out of Beer - A Day Full of Profit & Potential
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Just a quick note for you all, as I like to bring good news to the table on a Friday morning, Fuller's results are out and they are gooood!
For those of you who are interested in that kind of thing you can read the full set here - for those of you, like me, who prefer a more executive type of summary, here are the highlights:
- Revenue up 8% to £227.7 million (2009: £210.0 million)
- Adjusted profit before tax up 17% to £26.6 million (2009: £22.8 million)
- Own Beer sales volumes up 2%
- Managed Pubs and Hotels like for like sales increased by 2.7%
- Tenanted Inns like for like profits declined by 1%.
Also, just as an aside, I'm off to try my Otley beer today, which has the potential to be awful or fabulous, I'm very nervous about which one! And for those of you who've been trying to guess what the name is, it's thai-bO - told you'd all kick yourselves (sorry, I just can't help myself, I've got some sort of syndrome, bad punitis or something!).
So, I'm wending my way to judge at the Great Welsh Beer & Cider Festival, where I'll try my beer but it is a tad wearily, I must admit, after an excellent event with Young's, Charles Campion, the Evening Standard and Martin Peters MBE! What a very nice man, great crowd pleaser and full of funny stories and the audience was super-receptive to my beer tasting before hand and asked some quite taxing questions, great to see such knowledge and passion in the room!
However, obviously they were there to see Martin Peters and I have to say quote of the night was when he was asked about 'that' goal in the 66 final: "It was a goal, I'm telling you that because I was f*cking there!"
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