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RNS Number : 3655X  H&T Group PLC  23 July 2024

23 July 2024

H&T Group plc

("H&T", the "Company" or the "Group")

 

Trading Update and Notice of Interim Results

 

H&T Group Plc, the UK's largest pawnbroker and a leading retailer of high
quality new and pre‐owned jewellery and pre-owned watches, today issues a
trading update prior to the announcement of its interim results for the
six-month period ended 30 June 2024, which are expected to be published on 20
August 2024.

 

Trading across the Group, in the period since our last update on 16 May 2024,
has been in line with expectations.

Availability of small sum credit continues to be constrained generally for
consumers and demand for our pawnbroking offer has been robust. Redemptions
have taken a little longer to moderate than we anticipated, following the
pickup of redemptions in Spring but they have moderated through June and into
July.

The capital value of the pledge book (excluding accrued interest and
provisions) at 30 June was £105m (30 June 2023: £95m; 31 December 2023:
£101m). All key pledge book metrics remain in line with expectations.

Retail sales, through the demand for our high quality new and pre-owned
jewellery and watches, and foreign currency revenues continue to perform in
line with forecasts, while scrap margins are improving as expected.

Chris Gillespie, H&T Chief Executive Officer, commented:

"I am pleased to report that overall, trading performance in the first six
months of the financial year has been in line with our expectations. I look
forward to updating the market fully when we announce the Group's Interim
Results on 20 August."

 

Enquiries:

 

 H&T Group plc                                                               +44(0)20 8225 2700
 Chris Gillespie, Chief Executive Officer
 Diane Giddy, Chief Financial Officer

 Shore Capital Ltd (Nominated Adviser and Joint Broker)                      +44(0)20 7408 4090

 Stephane Auton / Sophie Collins (Corporate Advisory)
 Guy Wiehahn (Corporate Broking)

 Canaccord Genuity Limited (Joint Broker)                                    +44(0)20 7523 8000
 Emma Gabriel / George Grainger

 Alma Strategic Communications (PR)                                          +44(0)20 3405 0205
 Sam Modlin                                                                  handt@almastrategic.com
 Andy Bryant
 Rebecca Sanders-Hewett
 Will Merison

 
 

 

About H&T Group

H&T Group is the UK's largest pawnbroker, a leading retailer of high
quality new and pre-owned jewellery and watches and provides a range of
financial products tailored for a customer base which has limited access to or
is excluded from the traditional banking sector. These products include:
Pawnbroking, Retail and Foreign Currency.

 

H&T's store estate of c.280 stores across the UK provide customers with
small-sum short-term non-recourse pawnbroking loans secured by pledged
personal property, that consists primarily of gold, jewellery items and
watches. H&T also buys and sell's new and pre-owned gold, jewellery items
and watches along with providing foreign currency exchange, international
money transfer, third-party cheque encashment and watch repair services to its
customers.

 

H&T is regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority.

H&T's common stock (ticker symbol "HAT") is traded on AIM, which is the
London Stock Exchange's market for small and medium size growth companies.

For more information regarding H&T and the services the Group offers,
please visit H&T's website at http://handt.co.uk.

 

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