Friday, February 5, 2010

Carluccio’s reports good festive trading

Italian restaurant chain Carluccio’s said it expects overall trading conditions to remain challenging in 2010 but added it was set to meet its five store opening target for the year.

The company reported strong trading over the festive period and said that turnover for the 17 weeks to 24 January was up 8% compared with last year.

The turnover growth was achieved despite disruption to footfall and trading during January, as a result of the adverse weather conditions, and without significant discounting.

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