Clarke(T.) PLC AGM & Trading Update (5734Y)

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Clarke(T.) PLC

10 May 2019

TClarke plc

AGM AND TRADING UPDATE

Ahead of the Annual General Meeting, being held today at 10.00am at 200 Aldersgate, St Paul's, London EC1A 4HD, TClarke plc ("TClarke" or the "Group"), the Building Services Group, issues a Trading Update covering the period from 1(st) January 2019 to date.

The Group is pleased to report that trading in the early months of the 2019 financial year has continued to be positive. The Board remains confident that revenues and profits for the year will be in line with the upgraded expectations that we announced in March. To put those in context, for the year ending 31(st) December 2019, these are forecast to be revenues of GBP340 million; EBITDA of GBP12.1 million; underlying profit before tax of GBP9.3 million and underlying EPS of 17.5p. The Group also remains well placed to meet its financial objective of a sustainable 3% operating margin in 2019.

We are pleased with the continuing high quality of our forward order book, which as at 30(th) April 2019 remains strong at GBP403 million (2018: GBP368 million). Encouragingly, we are seeing no lack of opportunities across all of the market sectors in which we operate. In addition, encouraged by our large multi-national clients, we are pursuing opportunities for our Technologies business in western Europe and have established a new subsidiary, TClarke Europe Limited, as the vehicle for tendering and delivering these projects. We maintain a strict policy only to bid for projects that meet our internal risk analysis and we will approach this emerging business opportunity with our usual discipline and caution.

Overall, the outlook for TClarke continues to be positive and we look forward to reporting on the progress that we make over the remainder of the year.

The next update is scheduled for 6(th) August 2019 with the release of the Group's Half Year results for the six months ending 30(th) June 2019.

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For further information contact:

TClarke plc

Mark Lawrence - Group Chief Executive

Trevor Mitchell - Finance Director

David Lanchester - Company Secretary

Tel: [phone]

www.tclarke.co.uk

N+1 Singer (Financial Adviser and Broker)

Sandy Fraser

Rachel Hayes

Tel: [phone]

www.nplus1singer.com

RMS Partners

Simon Courtenay

Tel: [phone]

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