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B&M Announces 'Strong, Profitable Trading Momentum'

B&M European Value Retail S.A. ("the Group"), the UK's leading variety goods value retailer, today provides a trading update for the first quarter ("Q1") of its current financial year ("FY24"), covering the 13 week period from 26 March 2023 to 24 June 2023.

HIGHLIGHTS

●	Strong, profitable trading momentum across all three fascias has continued in recent weeks, with total Group revenue growth in Q1 of 13.5%, in line with our internal expectations
●	B&M UK Q1 LFL of 9.2%; both grocery and general merchandise categories have performed very well, driven by consistently strong and positive LFL transaction numbers
●	B&M UK general merchandise sales participation and sell-through has been excellent
●	Stock and cost disciplines remain firmly embedded across the Group
●	Interim financial results for the 26 weeks ending 23 September 2023 will be published on 9 November 2023

Alex Russo, Chief Executive, said,

"Our strong trading momentum demonstrates the strength of our unchanged strategy to relentlessly focus on price, product and excellence in retail standards. The business is well positioned as we start to transition to our autumn winter season. We will continue to work hard to help all our customers manage the cost-of-living crisis."

Group Revenue Summary

	Q1 FY24	Q1 FY23	Change
Total Group revenues	£1,318m	£1,161m	13.5%
B&M UK¹	£1,066m	£957m	11.3%
Heron Foods¹	£135m	£113m	19.4%
B&M France	£117m	£91m	29.1%
Constant currency total group revenue growth²	13.2%	(2.2%)	-
B&M UK like-for-like revenue growth³	9.2%	(9.1%)	-

1. References in this announcement to the B&M UK business includes the B&M fascia stores in the UK except for the 'B&M Express' fascia stores. References in this announcement to the Heron Foods business includes both the Heron Foods fascia and B&M Express fascia convenience stores in the UK.

2. Constant currency comparison involves restating the prior year Euro revenues using the same exchange rate as that used to translate the current year Euro revenues.

3. One-year like-for-like revenues relate to the B&M UK estate only (excluding wholesale revenues) and include each store's revenue for that part of the current period that falls at least 14 months after it opened compared with its revenue for the corresponding part of FY23. This 14-month approach has been adopted as it excludes the two-month halo period which new stores experience following opening.

Source : B&M

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29 June 2023