Premier Foods plc (PRRFY) Q1 2027 Sales/Trading Call Transcript

Premier Foods plc (PRRFY) Q1 2027 Sales/Trading Call July 16, 2026 4:00 AM EDT

Company Participants

Alexander Whitehouse - CEO & Director

Conference Call Participants

Charles Hall - Peel Hunt LLP, Research Division

Andrew Wade - Jefferies LLC, Research Division

Matthew Webb - Investec Bank plc, Research Division

Alexander Whitehouse CEO & Director Thank you very much, and good morning, everyone. Thank you for joining this, which is our quarter 1 trading update call, and that covers the 13 weeks to the 27th of June this year. As usual, I'm joined on the call this morning by Duncan Leggett, our CFO. I'll start by giving a few headlines on our trading in the quarter, and then we'll go into a few key areas to provide a bit more detail before, as usual, passing to you for questions that you might want to ask us. And also as a reminder, we're holding our AGM at 11:00 this morning, which, as usual, we're hosting in our offices here in St Albans. So if any shareholders would like to attend and don't yet have the details, please do contact Richard Godden in Investor Relations for details of how to attend.

So on to the quarter 1 results then. Firstly, I am pleased to say that once again, we've grown our branded sales ahead of the market. That's up 4% and so further increased our market shares. And this was led by a particularly strong performance by our branded Sweet Treats. And with our biggest brand, Mr Kipling, delivering especially strong growth.