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Egg-free baker Cake Box serves up sales and profit growth

It opened in 27 new locations in the year to March 31, up from 23 new stores last year.

A Cake Box shop(Image: Stoke Sentinel)

The rapid expansion of Cake Box has accelerated as the company unveiled results for its first year as a listed business.

The egg-free cream cake brand, which has eight sites in Greater Manchester, operates on a franchise model .

It opened in 27 new locations in the year to March 31, up from 23 new stores last year.

As of the end of March, there were 113 franchise stores in operation.

Pre-tax profits were up 14 per cent to £3.8m, while overall revenue jumped 33 per cent to £16.9m.

The company said like-for-like sales at franchise stores were 6.5 per cent higher. Online sales meanwhile rocketed 58 per cent to £4.4m.

It comes almost exactly a year after the group floated on London's junior market, when it achieved a valuation of just over £50m.

The rising share price since then has pushed the market capitalisation to over £66m.