Game
July 2: Shares in Game Group fell more than 8 per cent after the group reported falling sales in the first half, hindered by the lack of a blockbuster game release such as 2008’s Wii Fit that boosted sales for the same period last year
UK retail results
Resources
A measure of high street health
Results and trading statements from UK retailers will provide evidence about the state of high street spending amid concerns that the UK could be heading for recession. Follow results as they are reported on FT.com
Related content and features
Earnings news
HMV
June 30: An aggressive push into the computer gaming market has helped the specialist music and DVD retailer, which is two years into a three-year restructuring, report results at the top end of forecasts
Marks and Spencer
July 1: Sir Stuart Rose, the controversial executive chairman and chief executive of Marks and Spencer, refused to disclose plans for his departure in a trading statement ahead of the group’s annual meeting later this month
DSG International
June 25: Europe’s second-largest electrical retailer, owner of Currys and PC World, reported a sharp fall in underlying pre-tax profit, but the shares rose as like-for-like sales were better than expected
Kesa
June 24: The owner of Comet in the UK and Darty in France reported an annual loss of more than £80m and slashed its dividend after it was forced to writedown the value of its Spanish business
Tesco
June 16: Britain’s biggest retailer saw tentative signs of improvement on its UK performance compared with the previous quarter, with like for-like sales rising by 4.3%
Sainsbury’s
June 17: The supermarket chain said the £445m raised in a stock and bond issue would be used to open 50 new supermarkets and to extend another 50 over the next two years
John Lewis
June 12: Consumers continued to steer clear of homeware and electrical goods, sending overall sales at the John Lewis department store down 2.9% in the week to June 6, compared with the same period last year
Home Retail Group
June 11: The owner of Argos, the catalogue retailer, and Homebase, the DIY chain, saw a bounce in sales of season-driven items as it reported better-than-expected first quarter results
Wm Morrison
June 4: The Bradford-based group, the smallest of Britain’s ‘big four’ supermarket chains, reported an 8.2% rise in like-for-like sales excluding fuel and VAT, well ahead of forecasts
Carphone Warehouse
June 5: Carphone Warehouse hopes to complete the demerger of its telecoms and retail businesses by next March, the group said, as it reported full-year figures in line with expectations
New Look
June 3: The fashion retailer posted strong results for its full year ending March 28, with sales up 14.9% to £1.32bn and pre-tax earnings rising 10% to £217.6m
Kingfisher
June 2: The owner of B&Q in the UK and Castorama and Brico in France saw profits nearly double in its first quarter thanks to warmer weather and a late Easter
Next
May 7: Britain’s second-largest outfitter reported better than expected sales performance for the first quarter but warns the figures point to a ‘bottoming out’ rather than a recovery
JJB
May 21: The sportswear retailer has begun to win round the fashionable trainers suppliers it says are key to its survival, but warned sales would not improve until at least the fourth quarter
Co-op
May 7: A strong performance from the food division helped the UK supermarket chain lift gross sales above £10bn for the first time last year, continuing the brand’s renaissance
WH Smith
April 23: The newsagent and bookseller’s trade is boosted by the demise of the variety retailer and is looking at other former Woolies sites to take the number of new shops to 10 in the year to August
JD Sports
April 8: The sport retailer has defied the gloom on the high street with a rosy set of full year results, boosted by fashion conscious teenagers, which saw a 9 per cent rise in pre-tax profits
Debenhams
April 23: Shares in the department store chain surged on Thursday after the group reported better than expected profits and said it was on the hunt for acquisition opportunities on the high street
French Connection
March 18: The fashion retailer reported its first loss in more than a decade and scrapped its dividend in the face of ferocious discounting by its US competitors
Sports Direct
February 18: The retailer said it was particularly pleased with the trading performance in its home market, which had benefited from ‘specific management focus’
Thorntons
February 18: Discounting has left the purveyor of Viennese truffles and chocolate bunnies expecting its worst annual performance in more than a decade
