Investors strike gold as ten-pin sales up 8.9pc

Investors in the UK’S largest ten-pin bowling company could be about to hit a strike as the company suggested it would return cash to shareholders after its first year on the stock market.

Hollywood Bowl said customers had continued to flock through its doors with sales up by 8.9pc in the past 12 months compared with the same period last year.

Like-for-like sales for the year to Sept 30 were up a healthy 3.5pc.

Analysts lifted profit expectations for the 2017 financial year on the back of the update, and said they were expecting Hollywood Bowl to return cash via a special dividend.