Nick Wilkinson
CEO & Govt Director
So good morning, and an emotional welcome to the Dunelm prelims presentation overlaying our monetary yr to the top of June. My title is Nick Wilkinson. And Alison Brittain, Karen Witts and I are delighted to welcome you to the places of work of Peel Hunt in London in what’s my final outcomes presentation. Whether or not you’re right here in particular person or becoming a member of nearly, I hope you are effectively, and thanks on your curiosity within the persevering with story of Dunelm.
It is our regular operating order. I am going to introduce the highlights. Karen will then undergo the FY ’25 financials and our steering, and I will be again to share extra on our plans as we feature on rising Dunelm because the U.Okay.’s residence of houses. So with photographs from our autumn/winter product collections, we’ll get began. Our full yr outcomes present robust efficiency as we once more efficiently balanced development and grip. Gross sales up by 3.8%, had been forward of the market, which was up solely barely, and we proceed to maneuver in direction of our subsequent market share milestone of 10%.
As reported by world information, our mixed share now stands at 7.9%, which is up by 20 foundation factors on the prior yr. The steadiness of our gross sales development was significantly broad-based from a buyer perspective, by which I imply we noticed each greater volumes and better common merchandise values this yr. Final yr, we solely noticed greater volumes and never greater AIVs. And we noticed each greater frequency in addition to extra energetic clients, which grew by 80 bps on the prior yr.
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