Sports retailer JD Sports has announced that in the 26 weeks to 1st August trading continued to be strong as the company saw increased like-for-like sales everywhere including Europe.
Figures show that due to demand JD Sports achieved a massive 82% in first-half profit, as well as a rise of over 2% in the company shares.
Commenting, JD Sports said: “We are pleased to report that relatively strong trading has continued and, whilst recognising the critical importance of trading through the remainder of December and early January and also the further infrastructure cost increases during the year to support the increasing international development of the business.”
JD Sports are more than confident that it will surpass expectations of £125million by £10million and will produce post-Christmas figures on 14th January 2016.
