zooplus SE
zooplus AG: Final Q1 figures confirm strong growth in sales
zooplus AG / Key word(s): Quarter Results zooplus AG: Final Q1 figures confirm strong growth in sales
Dr. Cornelius Patt, CEO of zooplus AG, expects this performance to last: “Increasing sales – through advances in customer acquisition and remarkable achievements in customer loyalty – remains our top priority. To ensure that we maintain our excellent service quality while rapidly increasing volume we are expanding our dedicated logistics capacities across Europe to fulfill our future growth.” For the French, Spanish and Italian markets, a fourth major logistics center, based in “When presenting the preliminary Q1 sales figures, we raised the forecast for total sales in 2015 from around EUR 700 million to at least EUR 725 million as we are taking into account the advances in new and repeat customer business. While growth in new customer business is now considerably above budget, we reconfirm our existing forecast of pre-tax profit in the range of EUR 8 million to EUR 12 million for the full year,” explains Dr. Patt. The company maintains a very strong balance sheet – equity increased to EUR 88.1 million as of March 31, 2015 (December 31, 2014: EUR 86.2 million). With total assets of EUR 142.2 million (December 31, 2014: EUR 138.6 million), the equity ratio as of March 31, 2015 was therefore steady at 62.0% (December 31, 2014: 62.2%). Cash and cash equivalents amounted to EUR 38.2 million as of the end of the quarter. zooplus will make its full report for the first three months of 2015 available as a download at investors.zooplus.com during the course of the day.
Online at: www.zooplus.de
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Language: | English | |
Company: | zooplus AG | |
Sonnenstraße 15 | ||
80331 München | ||
Germany | ||
Phone: | +49 (0)89 95 006 – 100 | |
Fax: | +49 (0)89 95 006 – 500 | |
E-mail: | contact@zooplus.com | |
Internet: | www.zooplus.de | |
ISIN: | DE0005111702 | |
WKN: | 511170 | |
Indices: | SDAX | |
Listed: | Regulated Market in Frankfurt (Prime Standard); Regulated Unofficial Market in Berlin, Dusseldorf, Stuttgart | |
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