Victoria Regulatory News (VCP)

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Victoria PLC

('Victoria', the 'Company', or the 'Group')

Current Trading

and

Notice of Preliminary Results

Victoria PLC (LSE: VCP) the international designers, manufacturers and distributors of innovative flooring, announces the following positive current trading update and notice of results.

Strong Current Trading Continues

The Board confirms that trading continues to be very strong across all of Victoria's geographies and product groups, with double-digit percentage increases over 2019 (2020 comparatives are meaningless due to the complete lockdowns covering this period last year). Encouragingly, leading indicators, such as housing transactions, savings rates, and consumer confidence, suggest that the current high levels of consumer demand for Victoria's products will be sustained for the foreseeable future.

The Company is pleased to advise shareholders that it has been able to mitigate the inflation recently seen globally in certain raw material prices (albeit we expect this inflation to be only transitory) through a combination of selling price increases and supplier negotiations.

Additionally, the Group is very pleased with the post-completion performance of the recently announced acquisitions. Our management team is now fully engaged integrating these businesses into our existing operations, and we are confident that the acquired businesses will have a meaningful positive impact on our earnings and free cash flow this financial year.

Work continues on further acquisition opportunities and the Board anticipates being able to report additional acquisition-led growth in the short-term. Following the Koch Equity Development preferred equity investment in November and the subsequent bond issue in February and March of this year, the Company has a significant amount of capital ready to deploy for acquisitions and expects to do so, whilst maintaining the Group's stated financial policy.

Notice of Results

Victoria will announce its preliminary results for year ended 3 April 2021 on Tuesday, 20 July 2021.

An analyst briefing will be held at 10.00am on the morning of results. To register your attendance please contact Buchanan on 0207 466 5000 or at victoriaplc@buchanan.uk.com. The format of the presentation, (either virtual or face to face), will be confirmed nearer the time.

Chief Executive, Philippe Hamers, said

"In my 30 years in the industry, I have never known it to be busier at this time of the year. Our continually enhanced service proposition has proven to be the cornerstone of the Company's growth trajectory. Victoria's production is running at full capacity and some of our factories have orders taking all their output through until autumn. We are out-sourcing some production to ensure service standards are met and market share gains sustained.

The value of our management team's depth of industry experience and entrepreneurial initiative has proven invaluable as we have been able to overcome the risk of potential raw material shortages by leveraging our long-term relationships, size, and extensive knowledge of supply chain options.

I am confident shareholders will be very pleased with the way the business is performing this year."

The person responsible for arranging the release of this announcement on behalf of the Company is Michael Scott, Group Finance Director.

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