"Prudent" Egmont profits rise

Written By: Caroline Horn Publication Date: Thu, 21/04/2011 - 07:45 Egmont UK remains acquisitive but is predicting a "flat" year ahead. The specialist children's publisher reported sales down nearly 8% at £45.9m for the 12 months to 31st December 2010 (£49.7m in 2009) although pretax profits rose 14% to £1.6m (£1.4m). It has maintained its market share of 10% by volume, according to figures from Nielsen BookScan. read more Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'

[ The Bookseller | 2011-04-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
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