date:Jul 25, 2013
the firm said. That figure represents a decline from 9.0 percent last year but is ahead of analyst expectations.
This is a very strong performance and we take further encouragement from the margin beat given historic criticism of the group chasing revenue at the expense of margin, Investec analyst James Hollins said, raising his full-year pretax profit expectation by 4 percent to 76.3 million pounds.
Before Wednesday's announcement the pub firm was on average expected to post annual pretax pro