SSP deliver rise in sales and profits

SSP has revealed a 7.8% rise in pre tax profits to £197.2m for the year ended 30 September 2019. Sales were also up 9% to £2,794.6m. It said it had achieved the results despite an “unusual number of external headwinds during the year, including disruption from the ‘Gilets Jaunes’ protests in France, slower passenger growth and the impact of a number of airport redevelopments in the Nordic countries and in Spain, the grounding of Boeing Max 737 aircraft in North America, and weaker Chinese passenger numbers and the cessation of operations of Jet Airways in the Asia Pacific region.