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JD Sports Fashion

July 2010

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  • Epic Code:
  • JD.
  • Price:
  • 730p
JD Sports has issued a trading update for the first 18 weeks of the year. This said like-for-like sales have accelerated in the final eight weeks of the period, with retail sales growth for the period of 4.1%, compared to being 2% ahead in the first 10 weeks. JD also signalled that the sports side's performance (+5.1% like-for-like growth) has been boosted by the World Cup, whilst the French arm Chausport had also made a good start to the new year. The fashion side (-1.2% like-for-like) has also improved both its like-for-like sales and margins. Broker, Singer notes that the short-term profit driver on the sports side is Chausport, with expansion of this brand into the larger French conurbations and in addition, there are t ...

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