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Topps Tiles - Like-for-like sales go positive

December 2009

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The picture at Topps looks suddenly brighter with UK sales over the first seven weeks of the year showing a 2.2% like-for-like improvement (up 0.5% including new stores). Those figures were contained in the outlook statement as Topps reported its results for the year to 26 September. Overall sales were down 10% to Â£186m or down 13.5% excluding the impact of stores opened during the period. Adjusted pretax profit before exceptionals was down from Â£26.9m to Â£16.3m for earnings of 6.4p versus 9p. The results were before an exceptional charge relating to the closure of unprofitable stores in the UK and Holland. UK gross margin fell 3.5% to 58.3% as almost a quarter of purchases are in dollars and Euros and the weakness of St ...

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