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Pandora’s 2024 Operating Profit Growth Now Seen at Upper End of Guided Range

Pandora said it now expects full-year organic operating profit growth of between 11% and 12%. (Getty Images for Pandora Jewellery)
Pandora said it now expects full-year organic operating profit growth of between 11% and 12%. (Getty Images for Pandora Jewellery)
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Pandora’s 2024 Operating Profit Growth Now Seen at Upper End of Guided Range

Pandora said it now expects full-year organic operating profit growth of between 11% and 12%. (Getty Images for Pandora Jewellery)
Pandora said it now expects full-year organic operating profit growth of between 11% and 12%. (Getty Images for Pandora Jewellery)

Denmark's Pandora , the world's biggest jewellery maker, said on Wednesday it now expects operating profit growth this year at the upper end of its forecasted range while it reported quarterly operating profit a tad below forecasts.

"We are very pleased with our strong results this quarter, particularly in the context of the current macroeconomic backdrop," CEO Alexander Lacik said in a statement.

Operating profit rose to 980 million Danish crowns ($140.87 million) in the third quarter from 920 million a year earlier, slightly below the forecast of 991 million in a company-compiled poll.

Pandora said it now expects full-year organic operating profit growth of between 11% and 12% compared to its previously guided range of 9-12%. The company also raised its outlook in May and August.

It still expects an operating margin this year of around 25%.

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Boohoo Names Finley as CEO against Frasers Demand to Pick Mike Ashley

FILE PHOTO: A woman poses with a smartphone showing the Boohoo app in front of the Boohoo logo on display in this illustration taken September 30, 2020. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration/File Photo
FILE PHOTO: A woman poses with a smartphone showing the Boohoo app in front of the Boohoo logo on display in this illustration taken September 30, 2020. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration/File Photo
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Boohoo Names Finley as CEO against Frasers Demand to Pick Mike Ashley

FILE PHOTO: A woman poses with a smartphone showing the Boohoo app in front of the Boohoo logo on display in this illustration taken September 30, 2020. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration/File Photo
FILE PHOTO: A woman poses with a smartphone showing the Boohoo app in front of the Boohoo logo on display in this illustration taken September 30, 2020. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration/File Photo

British online fashion retailer Boohoo on Friday appointed Dan Finley as its new CEO, effective immediately, in a blow to top investor Frasers which had attempted to appoint its controlling shareholder Mike Ashley to the role.
Boohoo's shares rose 3% on the news of the appointment of Finley, who is currently head of Boohoo's digital department store unit Debenhams and who will replace John Lyttle.
Frasers last week requisitioned a general meeting at Boohoo to appoint British entrepreneur Ashley as CEO. A week prior, Boohoo had said Lyttle would step down and also announced a strategic review that could see it broken up.
Controlled by Ashley, the British sportswear and apparel retailer is Boohoo's biggest shareholder with a stake of about 27%.
Boohoo's board was unanimous in its decision to appoint Finley as CEO, the company's Deputy Chairman Alistair McGeorge said in a statement.
Frasers did not immediately respond to a Reuters request for a comment.
Under Finley's leadership, Debenhams has a gross merchandise value (GMV) annual run rate of about 800 million pounds ($1.03 billion) due to a capital-light and cash generative model, Boohoo said.
Analysts at Jefferies said the GMV was well ahead of the brokerage's estimate earlier this year of about 400 million pounds.
Boohoo, in response to Frasers last week, had said it was willing to discuss board representation but that there needed to be "appropriate governance" to protect its commercial position.
Boohoo had noted that Frasers also owns a 23.6% stake in ASOS, which operates in similar markets to both Boohoo and Frasers.
Frasers also owns stakes in the likes of British luxury brand Mulberry, where a takeover attempt by Frasers failed last month, and British electronics retailer AO World .
It also invested 150 million pounds in Debenhams, which went out of business in 2021 and was bought by Boohoo out of administration.