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RNS Number : 9177V

Finsbury Food Group PLC

03 February 2017

 
 Date:       3 February 2017 
 On behalf   Finsbury Food Group Plc ('Finsbury', 
  of:         'the Company' or 'the Group') 
 For immediate release

Finsbury Food Group Plc

Notice of Results

Finsbury Food Group Plc (AIM: FIF), a leading UK speciality bakery manufacturer of cake, bread and morning goods for both the retail and foodservice channels, will announce its interim results for the six months ended 31 December 2016, on Monday 20 March 2017.

An analyst briefing will be held at 1000hrs on the day at Redleaf Communications, First Floor, 4 London Wall Buildings, Blomfield Street, London, EC2M 5NT.

Analysts wishing to attend the briefing should contact Redleaf Communications on 0207 382 4730 or email finsbury@redleafpr.com to register.

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 For further information: 
 Finsbury Food Group Plc            www.finsburyfoods.co.uk 
 John Duffy (Chief Executive)       029 20 357 500 
 Stephen Boyd (Finance Director) 
 
 Cenkos Securities plc 
 Bobbie Hilliam (Corporate 
  Finance) 
 
 Redleaf Communications             finsbury@redleafpr.com 
 Rebecca Sanders-Hewett             020 7382 4730 
 Sarah Fabietti-Dallison 
 Sam Modlin

Notes to Editors:

-- Finsbury Food Group Plc (AIM: FIF) is a leading UK manufacturer of cake and bread bakery goods, supplying a broad range of blue chip customers within both the grocery retail and 'out of home eating' foodservice sectors including major multiples and leading foodservice providers.

-- Following the acquisition of the Fletchers Group of bakeries, the Company is one of the largest speciality bakery groups in the UK with annualised sales in 2016 exceeding GBP300 million.

   --     The Company's bakery product range is comprehensive and includes: 
   -    Large premium and celebration cakes. 
   -    Small snacking cake formats such as cake slices and bites.

- Artisan, healthy lifestyle and organic breads through to rolls, muffins (sweet and savoury) and morning pastries, all of which are available both fresh and frozen dependent on customer channel requirements.

-- The Company is now the second largest manufacturer of ambient packaged cake (excluding In Store Bakery (ISB)) in the UK, a market valued at over GBP945m (Source Symphony IRI, 52 w/e 31st December 2016). The annual retail bread and morning goods market has a value of GBP3.7 billion (source Kantar Worldpanel 52 weeks to 1 January 2017). The UK foodservice bread and morning goods bakery sector is worth approximately GBP800 million per annum, 70 per cent of which is in morning goods. The UK foodservice cake and sweet treat bakery sector is worth approximately GBP600m per annum.

   --     The Company comprises a UK Bakery division and an Overseas division:

- UK Bakery has manufacturing sites in Cardiff, East Kilbride, Hamilton, Twechar, Salisbury, Sheffield, London and Manchester.

- The overseas sector comprise, the Company's 50% owned Company Lightbody Stretz Ltd, which supplies and distributes the Group's UK manufactured products and third party products, primarily to Europe.

This information is provided by RNS

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