Hotel Chocolat remains ‘cautious’ as Easter sales perform ‘lower than expected’

// Hotel Chocolat expects sales for its 2023 financial year to be slightly lower than market expectations and that underlying pre-tax profit will be breakeven
// It said “excellent progress” was made on cost-base efficiencies and that it’s now expecting to see a return to sales and EBITDA growth by 2025Hotel Chocolat said it now expects sales to be slightly lower than market expectations and underlying profit before tax to break even in the 2023 financial year.
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