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Altitude

January 2024

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Altitude, the promotional products business, has reported interims with sales +54% to £11.8m, adjusted EBITDA +39% to £1.1m and eps +61% to 0.71p. The Merchanting side grew sales +100% to £7.6m. Here, the key swing factor is the company’s recent entry into running university “gear shops” - the on-campus bookshops that sell student books and university branded merchandise (mugs, t-shirts, etc) - which has given Altitude a direct-to-consumer channel as it’s selling the products directly to students rather than to PPDs. DTC has gross margins of 35-40% versus 10% at the original divisional activity of sales affiliates - so it’s clearly making several times as much profit per mug/t-shirt/sweatshirt sold. As rents are covered by ...

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Future - Monolithic free cashflow of £253m or 218p a share

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Altitude - Moves from “ready to scale” to “scaling now” (March 2023)

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Altitude (December 2019)

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Altitude (June 2019)

Altitude - Forecast eps of 7.5p rising to 15.5p (February 2019)

Altitude - Latest traction data showing real jump off in revenue (December 2018)

Altitude - 14 of 30 top suppliers on-boarded (October 2018)

Altitude (September 2018)

Altitude - Gaining traction with AIMPro (July 2018)

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Altitude - Second bite at the cherry (November 2017)

Altitude - Market awaits Channl traction data (June 2017)

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Altitude - Aprinta deal to go live in October (October 2016)

Altitude Group - Ground floor opportunity (September 2016)

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