Specsavers has reported strong sales growth for its UK retail operations.
Earlier this month holding company Specsavers Optical Superstores filed annual reports for the year ended February 28 2013. Turnover for the period increased by 8.6 per cent to £346.7m, while operating profit jumped 36.2 per cent to reach £15.8m.
Specsavers Optical Superstores saw its annual profit before tax decrease to £15.4m compared to £21.3m for 2012.
A dividend of £32m paid to the Guernsey-registered Specsavers Optical Group was also declared in the financial statement.
A spokesperson for the company added that the figures, filed with Companies House, related to just one Specavers holding company and did not give a full picture of the business as a whole.
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