Bonmarche Full-Year Profit Surges

Bonmarche Holdings PLC reported a 55 percent surge in its pretax profit for fiscal 2015. Bonmarche's pretax profit for the year climbed to 12.4 million pounds ($19.21 million), versus a year-ago profit of GBP8 million. Its revenue gained 9 percent to GBP178.6 million. Like-for-like sales surged 6 percent. EBITDA jumped 13.6 percent to £15.5 million. Bonmarche's board declared a final dividend of 4.5 pence per share.