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Financial profile · FY2026

Branded footwear model with recovering margins and working-capital-driven cash volatility

The multi-year record shows revenue growth followed by retrenchment, with operating profitability moving more sharply than sales as margins and costs shift. The business has continued to produce positive free cash flow with relatively modest capital spending, but cash generation varies with working-capital movements.

What is developing

The latest annual results show revenue still contracting while operating income improved, reflecting better margins and cost control rather than a return to sales growth. That is a meaningful earnings recovery, but not yet evidence that the underlying revenue pattern has changed.

What matters next

Whether direct-to-consumer revenue stabilizes while operating profitability is sustained without depending on working-capital inflows.

GBP
Metric FY2018 FY2019 FY2020 FY2021 FY2022 FY2023 FY2024 FY2025 FY2026
(5.7m) 17.2m 74.8m 35.7m 181.2m 128.9m 69.2m 4.5m 23.8m
6.5m 10.6m 29.5m 35m 36.9m 58.1m 72.3m 76.8m 72.6m
— — — 11.5m 5.2m 500k 4m 7.2m 5.2m
34.2m 41m 42.4m 49.3m 17m 28m 60m 39.1m 38.7m
(900k) 400k 8.3m (2.1m) 8.1m (8.2m) 18.8m 12.2m 10.9m
5.3m 5.2m 5.4m 12.8m 10.8m 12m 28.5m 38.4m 27.2m
11m (12.8m) (25.3m) 40.2m (50.7m) (137.7m) (33.6m) 75.9m 7.6m
46m 56m 121.4m 160.2m 184.4m 77.3m 167.9m 196.3m
(16.4m) (17.1m) (21.9m) (18.6m) (25m) (51.4m) (28.4m) (18.7m)
0 0 0 — — 800k 2.9m 3.4m 3.7m
(16.4m) (17.1m) (21.9m) (18.6m) (25m) (50.6m) (25.5m) (15.3m) (8.2m)
0 (60m) (35m) (303.6m) 0 — (50.5m) 0 (6.7m)
(4m) (4.1m) (3.6m) 183.5m (24m) (29.1m) (43.6m) (82.3m) (49.3m)
— — — — (12.2m) (58.4m) (57.8m) (9.5m) (24.6m)
(5.3m) (5.2m) (5.4m) (12.8m) (10.8m) (12m) (34m) (42.4m) (27.2m)
(9.3m) (69.3m) (44m) (132.9m) (47m) (99.5m) (185.9m) (134.2m) (107.8m)
(1.1m) 2.4m 3.3m (12.3m) 2m 2.3m (2.9m) (2m) (2.3m)
19.2m (28m) 58.8m (3.6m) 114.4m (70.5m) (46.4m) 44.8m 24.4m
29.6m 38.9m 99.5m 141.6m 159.4m 25.9m 139.5m 177.6m