RECORD CHRISTMAS PERFORMANCE
Greene King announces its Interim Management Statement for the 37 weeks to 15 January 2012.
- Retail like-for-like sales up 8.2% and food like-for-like sales up 11.1%, last seven weeks
- Average EBITDA per pub in Pub Partners up 5.9%, last eight weeks
- Core brand own-brewed volumes up 7.4%, last seven weeks
Rooney Anand, Chief Executive, said: "This was another strong performance driven by the strength of our business and our continued commitment to providing unrivalled value, service and quality to our customers.
It is clear that even in these difficult times, customers still look for enjoyment and some respite from the financial pressures they are facing. Across the UK, the pub becomes the real heart of the community during Christmas. Supported by better weather conditions than in the previous year, we saw record Christmas bookings and our like-for-like sales in Christmas week were up 17%. Food sales were 1.7m on Christmas Day alone, and we sold 365,000 Christmas meals in December, another record for Greene King."
