Compass reports strong Q1 growth as revenues recover to pre-pandemic levels
Four out of five sectors are now trading above 100% of pre-pandemic 2019 revenues, the support services company said
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Compass Group PLC
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Compass Group PLC is a market leader in providing food and a range of selected support services to customers in the workplace, in schools and colleges, in hospitals, at leisure or in remote environments
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"Radical new collaborations are urgently needed across the entire value chain to make it a reality."
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Revenue is expected to improve in the third quarter after a slide in the first half of the financial year
Compass Group confident of rebuilding margins before it returns to pre-COVID-19 volumes
The group has been operating at about 71% of 2019 revenues in the first half of its current fiscal year, which runs to the end of September.
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Compass says depressed sales continue but sales pipeline is growing
Second-quarter revenues and volumes will be broadly in line with the first, but operating margins are expected to improve
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Compass Group most exposed to structural shift from home working among European caterers, says JP Morgan
The bank said they believed the pandemic will “accelerate” the shift of wallet spending from “out-of-home to in-home triggered by [working from home]” which in turn will underpin further growth in employee benefits rather than in-office cat
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“We are improving the quality of the business and will emerge from the pandemic stronger than we've ever been,” said boss Dominic Blakemore
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