割引 retailer Pepco's sales growth slows
Q3 group underlying sales up 2.6% vs up 8.5% in Q2
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Pepco brand Q3 sales 負かす／撃墜する 1.2%
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貿易（する）ing 環境 堅い in Central Europe
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持続するs 指導／手引 for 十分な year
(追加するs CEO 引用するs in paragraphs 6 and 7, 株 in final paragraph)
By James Davey
LONDON, July 13 (Reuters) - European 割引 retailer Pepco Group 報告（する）／憶測d a 減産／沈滞 in underlying sales growth in its 最新の ４半期/4分の1 on Thursday, 説 it 直面するd a challenging 貿易（する）ing 環境 in April and May, 特に in Central Europe.
The Warsaw-名簿（に載せる）／表（にあげる）d group, which owns the Pepco, Poundland and Dealz brands, did, however, 持続する its 財政上の 指導／手引 for the 十分な 2022-23 year.
It said like-for-like sales rose 2.6% in its third ４半期/4分の1 to June 30, after 増加するing 8.5% in the second ４半期/4分の1.
Like-for-like sales in the Pepco branded 商売／仕事 fell 1.2% in the third ４半期/4分の1 全体にわたる, but 貿易（する）ing had 回復するd in 最近の weeks with a 肯定的な like-for-like 業績／成果 in June and the start to the fourth ４半期/4分の1.
European 消費者s have been under 圧力 for over a year from high インフレーション that has outstripped 支払う／賃金 growth.
"The 大型の-経済的な 気候 continues to be challenging, 特に in Central Europe, 予定 to elevated levels of インフレーション," Pepco Group CEO Trevor Masters said.
"In 新規加入, Pepco´s Q3 growth 反映するd a period where the 商売／仕事 利益d from 貿易（する）ing upside in the 事前の year driven by the influx of people from the ウクライナ共和国 war into its 核心 markets."
< p class="mol-para-with-font">Third ４半期/4分の1 like-for-like sales in the Poundland Group - Poundland and Dealz - rose 9.0%, driven by 消費者s prioritising spend on 急速な／放蕩な moving 消費者 goods (FMCGs).Total group 歳入 増加するd 12.5% on a constant 通貨 basis to 1.37 billion euros ($1.53 billion), 上げるd by 159 new 蓄える／店 開始s.
The group said it 推定する／予想するd to 報告（する）／憶測 十分な year 核心 収入s (EBITDA) growth in the "中央の-teens" on a constant 通貨 basis, assuming no その上の 重要な 悪化／低下 in the 貿易（する）ing 環境.
It ended the ４半期/4分の1 with 4,286 蓄える／店s, and said it remained on 跡をつける to open 550 逮捕する new 蓄える／店s over the 十分な year.
株 in the group are 負かす／撃墜する 8% so far this year, giving it a market capitalisation of 20.7 billion ポーランドの（人） zloty ($5.2 billion).
($1 = 0.8978 euros) (報告（する）／憶測ing by James Davey; Editing by Rashmi Aich and 示す Potter)
