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![“Aggressive pricing and margin deterioration was exacerbated by a very poor summer release schedule as a result of numerous sporting events such as Euro 2012 and the [London] Olympics,” group managing director Stephen Fitzgerald said. Photograph: David Sleator](/polopoly_fs/1.1403323.1369252679!/image/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/box_300/image.jpg "“Aggressive pricing and margin deterioration was exacerbated by a very poor summer release schedule as a result of numerous sporting events such as Euro 2012 and the [London] Olympics,” group managing director Stephen Fitzgerald said. Photograph: David Sleator")
![“Aggressive pricing and margin deterioration was exacerbated by a very poor summer release schedule as a result of numerous sporting events such as Euro 2012 and the [London] Olympics,” group managing director Stephen Fitzgerald said. Photograph: David Sleator](/polopoly_fs/1.1403323.1369252679!/image/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/landscape_140/image.jpg "“Aggressive pricing and margin deterioration was exacerbated by a very poor summer release schedule as a result of numerous sporting events such as Euro 2012 and the [London] Olympics,” group managing director Stephen Fitzgerald said. Photograph: David Sleator")
