Cinemas operator Everyman Media Group PLC (LON:EMAN) traded in line with expectations in the first half of the year.
The group ended the first half of the year operating 28 cinemas having opened a three-screen venue in Horsham and a four-screen venue in Newcastle earlier this year.
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Demand for the Everyman offer continues to strengthen, the company said, while contracts have recently been exchanged for a new venue in Egham, Surrey (four screens).
The company is on track to open five more new venues in 2019 and has legal commitments to open a further nine sites through 2020 and 2021 with more in advanced stages of negotiation.
Shares in Everyman were up 6.7% at 182.5p in early deals.