("Bloomsbury" or "the Company")
Revenue comfortably ahead and profit materially ahead of expectations
Revenue is now expected to be comfortably ahead and profit before taxation and highlighted items materially ahead of current market expectations* for the year ending
Other important bestsellers in the Consumer division in the second half of the year to date include Ghosts, the companion book to the
The Company will provide a further trading update on performance for the year ended
* The Board considers that the consensus market expectation for the year ending
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