Bakkavör boss Agust Gudmundsson said: “The group delivered encouraging sales growth in the quarter with our balanced and broad product portfolio enabling us to manage the well-publicised challenges faced by the whole industry from both food contamination and poor weather in the UK.
Chilled convenience market
“Although the economic climate remains tough we are confident of our strategy and we remain well positioned in the chilled convenience market.”
Like-for-like sales were up by 3% for the quarter compared with the same period of last year.
Revenue was up by 1% at £392.7M.
The manufacturer’s UK business generated revenue of £342.7M in the quarter, up by 1.8% on the previous year.