Get Link reports results for the first half of twenty nineteen Jancunort, you are the Chairman and CEO of Get Link. Hello?
Hello. I'm very pleased to answer your questions.
So how would you describe these half year results?
Ah, good. Very strong results because, we had, revenue growth for the 10 times shifts in a row, which is very strong. Which is a clear evidence of the robustness, the resilience of our business model, despite a lot of challenges in this first half, of course, Brexit which was scheduled for end of March and no Brexit, and a various crisis in France with, the French custom officer strike, which obviously has impacted our results and, yellow vest crisis demonstrations, which is not really attractive for tourists. So In a nutshell, I would say, gross, revenue growth, and we are very pleased to say that we serve, the highest level of dividends as ever with 1,000,000 of dividends. Just to explain that we focus on the total shareholder return.
So could you give us some figures for this half year?
Clear and blunt figures in order to understand that we have a very resilient and sustainable business model. Revenues are up by 2%. Net profit is up by 5%. And more importantly, free cash flow is up by 19%. This is a clear evidence of the quality of the business and the possibility we have to serve increased dividends, for instance.
And despite slight weakness of EBITDA due to the, custom officer strike I mentioned, if such crisis will not happen, it means that EBITDA would be still positive, still growing. So that's strong on the concession itself. And I would like to pay tribute to Euroports, our Wild West subsidiary. We did a very good business and, very strong results. And of course, they are working on a, let's say, kind of green business, which is quite good, like for the concession itself.
So definitively, we are very pleased with the first half results Even if we faced some challenges, but perhaps we can, explain what are such, future challenges in the second half because we are focusing on the second half.
So what is your guidance for the second half of twenty nineteen?
I'm not sure, we can say that, this year, we have, 2 Brexit. 1 in March, which did not happen. And something likely to happen like a no deal, in October. We have already said that in case of no deal, which is the most likely to happen presently, Our guidance was 1,000,000, and I confirm we can provide such, we can deliver such level of profit And of course, there is no problem, as I said, on dividends policy, still growing, still a strong dividend return.
And beyond 2019,
Great Britain. We'll have a new prime minister. I don't know what is the official statements he will, make, but I am sure that we are able to deal with all the new rules, whatever such rules, because we have invested in a lot in staff prepared for the Brexit in IT tools, in infrastructure, in order to focus on what is key for us, which is liquidity and speed. We have a customer driven strategy, and we believe that this is a real way to have a very success full future. We are very confident in the capacity for the group to have a strong and, a reliable growth in the future mid term.
Thank you very much.