Currys has hailed an “encouraging” efficiency over the previous yr however warned that earnings are set to drop subsequent yr because it comes underneath larger stress from inflation.
he electronics retailer posted a rise in adjusted pre-tax earnings to £186m over the yr to April 30, in contrast with £156m within the earlier yr.
Currys advised buyers it was buoyed by £69m in financial savings by means of cost-cutting over the yr.
This helped to offset round £50m of value inflation within the operations of operating its shops, with a very excessive leap in vitality.
The electronics retailer stated it expects earnings to drop to between £130m and £150m within the new monetary yr as a consequence of “the present financial outlook and inflationary headwinds”.
It stated inflation is “very possible” to place stress on client spending and “influence gross sales, notably in a few of our extra discretionary classes”.
Currys stated it’ll subsequently double down on its buyer supply and pricing, with an prolonged vary of merchandise at decrease costs.
It added that its massive market share will permit it to journey out inflationary pressures and weak point in client sentiment extra simply than some opponents.
“Consequently, we’ll use the anticipated market weak point as a possibility to achieve share and construct long-term worth,” the group stated.
In the meantime, whole gross sales declined by 2pc to £10.1bn over the yr, amid a 3pc drop in gross sales for its UK and Eire operation.
Group retailer gross sales elevated by 24pc because the agency benefited from looser pandemic restrictions, though this was offset by a slowdown in on-line demand.
Alex Baldock, group chief govt of Currys, stated: “These robust outcomes present the very important position that expertise performs in hundreds of thousands of lives and that increasingly more clients are turning to Currys to assist them get pleasure from that expertise to the complete.
“A stronger enterprise permits us to assist clients by means of the cost-of-living disaster.
“Our scale as a world market chief, our grip on prices and our robust relationships with suppliers will permit us to handle inflationary headwinds and preserve superb expertise inside attain of everybody, even now. That is what Currys exists to do and it is by no means mattered extra.”
