Sales of England tops for dogs have helped profits to soar at pet
supplies retailer Pets at Home. The retailer
sold 20,000 England-themed tops for canines in the run-up to the
football World Cup, reports the Guardian, which adds that like-for-like sales
at Pets at Home rose 8.8 percent in the year to 25th March, and
pretax profit jumped 36 percent to £54 million.
Shoe retailer Office has been put up for sale by
its owner West Coast Capital. According to the Financial Times, it has appointed investment
bank Hawkpoint and US-based Financo to find a buyer.
Staying with footwear, Schuh delivered a record
performance in the year to 28th March. Turnover rose 8.7 percent
to £146.5 million and EBITDA improved by 21.2 percent to
£17.3 million. Operating profit rose 26 percent to
£13.6 million.
MandM Direct has gone live with its
German-language website. Although the cataloguer/etailer delivers
to Belgium, Denmark, Eire, Finland, France, Luxembourg, Monaco,
The Netherlands, and Sweden, Mandmdirect.de is the company’s
first foreign-language website.
Homewares catalogue House of Bath, children’s
furniture catalogue the Great Little Trading Co
and interior design brand Occa are mentioned in
an Independent article on sprucing up your
garden furniture.
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