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Luminar - Bullish trading statement

February 2004

Investing in shares may lose you all or some of your money. Past performance is no indication of future performance. Some of the shares recommended here may be small company shares, which can be relatively illiquid and hard to trade and this makes such shares more risky than other investments.

The shares had a strong run ahead of Luminar issuing its trading update covering the key five week period to 4 January, with modestly better sales on the back of refurbishments and year-on-year margin improvement. Total group like for like sales declined by 3%, an improvement over the 4% decline reported in the half year.The benefits of the investment programme have started to come through, with the units that have received accelerated investment, improving like for like sales. In particular, The Chicago Rocks responded strongly to increased spend on refurbishment: like for like sales declined marginally by 1% during the period compared with the 10% decline reported for the half year.  On an uninvested basis there was a 1% im ...

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