Domino's customers get taste for online orders, profits up 12 per cent

27th Feb 2014 11:43

Hungry Europeans gobbled up 65.5m Domino's pizzas in 2013 helping the company deliver a tasty 11.6 per cent rise in pre-tax profits to 55.6m pounds.However, the takeaway food company had to digest pre-tax exceptional costs of £27.5m of which £26.5m relates to impairments and other exceptional charges within its German and a foreign exchange loss in Switzerland.The company, which operates a franchise system, also revealed like-for-like sales figures for the first seven weeks of 2014, with the UK up 14.6%, Ireland 4.6%, Germany 3.8% and Switzerland down 0.4%.Domino's said online sales increased by 28.2% to £338m. In the UK this accounted for 61.5% of deliveries (compared with 56.1% in 2012) and of this figure 30.9% of orders were taken through a device against 19.7% a year earlier.The dividend increased 9.7% to 15.9p a share.Domino's shares were up 1p to 557p at 11.38.FP