Lees Foods Plc: AGM Statement | Company Announcements

Wednesday 24 June, 2009

Lees Foods Plc

AGM Statement

RNS Number : 3798U

Lees Foods Plc

24 June 2009

AGM STATEMENT

At the Annual General Meeting of Lees Foods plc (the ''Company''), to be held at 10am today (Wednesday June 24th 2009), the Company's chairman and chief executive, Raymond Miquel will confirm that sales at Lees of Scotland and Waverley Bakery, are currently 14% up on the same period last year.

It is expected that profits for the first six months of the year to 30 June 2009 will be ahead of the comparable figure for last year.

Mr Miquel attributes the sales performance to a combination of increased demand from existing customers, the opening of a number of key new accounts and the introduction of several new products to the Company's portfolio.

Subject to shareholder approval at the AGM, the company is proposing a dividend of 6.7p per share.

Enquiries

Lees Foods Plc	01236 441600
Raymond Miquel - Chairman and Chief Executive

Shore Capital and Corporate - Nomad and Broker	0207 408 4090
Guy Peters

Budge PR Ltd - Public Relations	0141 553 1115
David Budge

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