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Blooms of Bressingham Holdings plc
19 January 2004

                    Blooms of Bressingham Holdings PLC

                            19th January 2004


                  Christmas and End of Year Trading Statement





Trading update


Blooms of Bressingham Holdings PLC today reports on trading over the Christmas
period.


Like-for-like sales over the Christmas period for the 9 weeks to 28th December
were up by 7.9% (for continuing centres only) and post-Christmas sales have been
buoyant and well ahead of last year.


Overall, with only 3 weeks remaining to our year-end, our like-for-like sales
for the year-to-date are up 9.2%.  Group sales for the year to-date are up 1.5%,
which reflects the disposal of the five non-core centres during the financial
year. We expect that both gross margin and profits will be in line with market
expectations for the year and post Christmas stock is at a satisfactory level



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