JD Wetherspoon, the pub chain, has reported a fall in annual losses despite rising costs from energy and wages
The company reported a loss of £30.4m for the 12 months ending 31 July. That followed a £154.7m loss for the previous 12 months.
Sales, Wetherspoons said, continued to be lower than pre-pandemic levels. But it reported that like-for-like sales in the first nine weeks of its new financial year were 10.1% higher than the same time a year earlier.Shares in the company, which was founded by Tim Martin, rose by 5% even though the dividend was withdrawn
Mr Martin said that the greatest threat to the business, and the whole hospitality sector, was the potential for more COVID restrictions, rather than the effects of theAnalysts said that Wetherspoons was likely to prove more attractive than many rivals given its focus on low prices and scale, but Charlie Huggins, head of equities at Wealth Club, said:"2022 was another annus horribilis for Wetherspoons.
"The recovery from the pandemic has been slower than the group initially expected, meaning sales and profits are a long way short of where they would want them to be."Wetherspoons' business model is heavily exposed to the rise in energy and food bills. "While it can pass on some of these cost increases, it will be reluctant to push prices too far, for fear of ostracising its customer base."
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