(1) Interim Sales Analysis
 
 First Half Sales First Half Sales Full Year Sales
 2004/05 2003/04 2003/04
 £m £m £m
 
Own Shop 85.4 85.8 136.8
Franchise  8.6 7.8 12.9
Private label commercial 9.1 8.8 13.7
Thorntons branded commercial 13.4 3.6 10.0
Thorntons Direct 3.2 3.3 5.3
 
Total 119.7 109.3 178.7
 
 
(2) Comparison of 2004/05 sales with the previous year
 
  28 weeks ending 28 weeks ending Full Year
 08-Jan-05 10-Jan-04 2003/04
 
Own Shop -0.3% 2.4% 2.2%
Franchise 9.3% 1.3% 4.9%
Private label commercial 2.7% 6.0% 8.7%
Thorntons branded commercial 270.0% 140.0% 222.6%
Thorntons Direct -2.1% -2.9% 0.0%
 
Total 9.5%  4.4% 6.9%
 
Own Shops like-for-like 0.8% 2.5% 2.6%
 
 
(3) Changes in the Retail estate can be summarised as follows
 
Opening number  378 389 389
 
New shops 3 2 3
Resites 0 0 0
Closures -4 -3 -14
 
Closing number 377 388 378
 
 
Franchise shops trading  221 201 203
 
Royalties from licensed products (£'000) 260 248 412