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February 2003

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Bookseller, Ottakars, looks set to enjoy a strong run ahead of the publication of the fifth of the six Harry Potter books, "Order of the Phoenix," on 21 June. The previous books all remain on the best seller lists and all went to number one. Ottakars has alreadyreported strong trading over the Christmas period. Sales for the sixweeks to 11 January were up 19% helped by the new stores opened during2002 and the eight stores from the Thin acquisition. For the 50 weeksto 11 January, sales lifted 15.2%. Like-for-like sales wereup 5.0% over the six weeks and up 3.3% over 50 weeks. These resultsare despite strong comparatives with like-for-like sales up 7.5% inthe first six weeks last year. Ottakars also stated that gros ...

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