Crawshaw Group Regulatory News (CRAW)

Crawshaw Group plc

Trading update

19th November, 2013

Crawshaw Group plc ("Crawshaw"), the meat focussed retailer, provides the following update on current trading.

On 26th September 2013 we reported our half year results and stated that like for like sales for the 8 weeks since the half year were up 10% and that we were therefore encouraged by our prospects. Crawshaw is now delighted to report that management actions to grow sales and margin continue to work, and as a result like for like sales for the 7 weeks since that time are up 18%, and at a higher gross margin.

Richard Rose, Chairman of Crawshaw, commented: "This progressive improvement in our trading performance which is broadly spread across most of our retail stores gives me further encouragement for the future and I look forward to updating the market further following our very important Christmas trading period."

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