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Warpaint LondonAnnouncement

07/02/2018 07:00

RNS Number : 1037E
Warpaint London PLC
07 February 2018
7 February 2018
Warpaint London PLC
("Warpaint", the "Company" or the "Group")
Trading Update
Warpaint London PLC (AIM: W7L), the specialist supplier of colour cosmetics and owner of the W7 brand, is pleased to announce the following trading update for the year ended 31 December 2017.
The Group continued to perform well during 2017 and the Board confirms that it expects to report results in line with management expectations for the financial year.
The integration of Retra, acquired in November 2017, has been completed and the Retra business is performing well. A new managing director and finance director for Retra were appointed in December 2017 to drive this business forward and work with other Group management to maximise the opportunities available to the combined Group.
The Company will announce its results for the year ended 31 December 2017 in late April 2018.
Commenting, Sam Bazini and Eoin Macleod, Joint Chief Executives of Warpaint, said: 
"We are very pleased with the performance of the Group in 2017. Retra has integrated well with the rest of the Group and we are already seeing new opportunities and synergies from the combination.
"2018 has started well and we look forward to the future with confidence."
Enquiries:
Warpaint London PLC
Sam Bazini - Joint Chief Executive Officer
Eoin Macleod - Joint Chief Executive Officer
Neil Rodol - Chief Financial Officer
c/o IFC
Stockdale Securities Limited (Nominated Adviser and Broker)
Antonio Bossi, Ed Thomas - Corporate Finance
Fiona Conroy - Corporate Broking
020 7601 6100
IFC Advisory Limited (Financial PR & IR)
Tim Metcalfe
Graham Herring
Heather Armstrong
Miles Nolan
020 3934 6630
About Warpaint London PLC
Warpaint is a colour cosmetics business, based in Iver, Buckinghamshire. It is made up of two divisions: close-out and own-brand. The second and larger own-brand division consists primarily of the Group's flagship brand, W7 - an extremely creative, design-focused cosmetic brand proposition with a focus on the 16-30 age range, delivering high-quality cosmetics at affordable prices. The W7 brand has grown organically since its inception in 2002 and now contains over 680 items which are sold into high street retailers and independent beauty shops across the UK, Europe, Australia and the US. In 2016, W7 was supplied to over250 customers in more than 50 countries.
In November 2017 Warpaint acquired Retra Holdings, a UK colour cosmetics business with a significant focus on the gifting market. Retra owns three major brands: Technic, Body Collection and Man's Stuff, in addition to white label cosmetics produced for several major high street retailers.

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