J Sainsbury
November 11: Britain’s third-biggest supermarket chain said sales excluding VAT rose 5% to £10.433bn as it increased its dividend by 11%
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Debenhams
October 22: The department store reported a 14% increase in annual profits and a sharp reduction in debt as it confirmed John Lovering, chairman, would retire from the board
Marks and Spencer
November 4: Sir Stuart Rose, chief executive of M&S, said improving consumer sentiment and the retailer’s moves to cut costs and improve its offering helped interim profits beat forecasts
Arcadia
October 22: Sir Philip Green’s Arcadia Group which includes the Topshop and Topman brands, increased pre-tax profit by 13%, from £188.9m to £213.6m
Home Retail Group
October 21: The owner of Homebase, the DIY retailer, and Argos, the catalogue chain of outlets, reported operating profit was up by 14% to £121m, helped by a cost-cutting programme
Co-op
October 12: The Co-operative Group’s profit for the first half of the year rose by almost a fifth following the acquisition of Somerfield
WH Smith
October 15: The newsagent and bookseller’s raised its dividend and reported growing profit and margins in spite of falling sales
Carphone Warehouse
October 8: The group’s TalkTalk service added a better than expected 77,000 net new customers in the second quarter, ahead of expectations, as it continued to take market share
Thorntons
October 8: The chocolate retailer has reported a 2.3% increase in first-quarter sales to £46.8m, helped by a raft of new products designed to lift its share in different parts of the market
Asos
September 30: Asos, the online retailer, said that the 1980s revival helped lift sales by 47% in its first half, but profits will only be ‘marginally ahead’ of last year
Game Group
September 23: The company saw sales and profits tumble in the six months, with pre-tax profits falling by more than 67% to £10.8m
John Lewis
September 17: The employee-owned group said sales in the six months to August 1 rose 3.5 per cent to £3.39bn and pre-tax profits fell from £107.3m to £86.3m
JD Sports
September 22: Revenue for the six months to August 1 rose 8% to £324m, enabling the sports retailer to report a jump in net cash from £3.4m to £5.9m
Kingfisher
September 17: The international DIY group’s first-half profits rose by a third as tighter control of costs and stock aided its B&Q chain in the UK and Ireland
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September 16: The clothing retailer painted a gloomy picture of life on the British high street in 2010, even as it increased its profit forecast for 2009
Wm Morrison
September 10: The UK’s fourth-biggest supermarket group warns of lower sales growth on the back of more moderate rises in food prices, as it lifted profits and raised its interim dividend by 35%
HMV
September 3: The music retailer is to take a 50 per cent stake in 7digital, the download site, in a drive to develop online sales via its Waterstones and HMV websites
Kesa
September 10: An improving performance at Comet helped Kesa, Europe’s third-largest electricals retailer, beat expectations in its first quarter but a fall in sales outside the UK and France unnerved shareholders
Sports Direct
September 9: UK’s leading sportswear retailer raises its profit forecast for the year by 7% and says it is comfortable with its goal of cutting net debt to below £400m
