{"id":6109,"date":"2026-05-12T07:37:25","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T07:37:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/?p=6109"},"modified":"2026-05-12T07:37:25","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T07:37:25","slug":"pubs-group-marstons-drinks-to-world-cup-uplift-daily-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/?p=6109","title":{"rendered":"Pubs group Marston&#8217;s drinks to World Cup uplift \u2013 Daily Business"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <\/p>\n<p>Marston\u2019s is \u2018well positioned\u2019 for the World Cup<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Pubs group Marston\u2019s delivered a profits rise and improved margins ahead of a likely summer boost from the World Cup.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Figures for the 26 weeks ended 28 March 2026, showed stable underlying EBITDA of \u00a385.9 million, with an improved underlying EBITDA margin of 20.3%.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Revenue was \u00a3422.7 million, a slight decrease of 1.1% year-on-year, impacted by temporary pub closures for format refurbishments. Profit before tax increased by 7.9% to \u00a320.5m. <\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">The company completed 60 pub format refurbishments, exceeding its target, with these new formats delivering an average return on invested capital of 35% and like-for-like growth of approximately 20%.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Capital expenditure rose to \u00a339m, and net debt reduced by 2.7% to \u00a3857.7m, with leverage improving to 4.7x. <\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Marston\u2019s said it remains on track to meet full-year expectations, anticipating strong summer trading driven by new pub formats and upcoming events.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Justin Platt, CEO, said: \u201cWe have made excellent strategic progress in the first half, delivering a strong profit performance underpinned by further margin expansion.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">\u201cOur disciplined operating model continues to drive efficiencies across the business.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">\u201cWe are very well positioned for the World Cup summer ahead and expect our pubs, especially our new Grandstand formats, to be in high demand. <\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">\u201cAgainst this backdrop, we are encouraged by the outlook for H2 and remain on track to deliver full\u2011year market expectations.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>           \t            #Pubs #group #Marstons #drinks #World #Cup #uplift #Daily #Business<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marston\u2019s is \u2018well positioned\u2019 for the World Cup Pubs group Marston\u2019s delivered a profits rise&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[272,1594,306,8523,385,11766,5144,11767,51],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6109"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6109\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}