Games Workshop ends year on a high, declares dividend
Games Workshop updated the market on the end of its trading year on Friday, reporting that its sales and profit growth, as discussed in its update on 4 May, had continued to the end of the financial year.
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The FTSE 250 company said growth had been seen across all sales channels.
It said it expected the group's sales for the 53 weeks to 3 June to be approximately £219m, with profit before tax to be no less than £74m.
Royalties receivable from licensing were set to be £10m.
In recognition of its staff's contribution to the results, Games Workshop paid a bonus during the year amounting to £5m, which was paid equally to each member of staff.
Games Workshop’s board declared a dividend of 30p per share as well, to be paid on 27 July to shareholders on the register on 22 June, with an ex-dividend date of 21 June.
The last date for elections for the dividend reinvestment plan would be 6 July.
“We will provide detailed information on the audited results for the 2018 financial year at the time of our full year results announcement on 31 July,” the Games Workshop board said.