Sports Direct profits dive by nearly 60%
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Profits at retailer Sports Direct have plummeted nearly 60% largely as a result of the weaker pound.
Underlying pre-tax profit fell to £113.7m, down from £275.2m last year, because of "currency movements and increased depreciation charges".
Chief executive Mike Ashley said it had now taken steps to "minimise the short-term impact of currency volatility".
Sports Direct's reputation has been badly hit by revelations about staff conditions at its Derbyshire warehouse.
Chairman Keith Hellawell said the company had made "positive progress" across the business as it continued to "strive to ensure that all of our people are treated with dignity and respect".
A recent survey of workers in Shirebrook, to which 3,300 people responded, had showed that an "overwhelming majority" of people in the warehouse "currently feel they are treated with respect", he added.
Staff had elected the company's first UK workers' representative and Mr Hellawell said he had "no doubt" their "contribution will prove invaluable to the board as the Sports Direct family continues to move forward together".
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Re: Sports Direct profits dive by nearly 60%
That some drop in £££
I read the articles on him on BBC site today ref his comments on he always loses his fine and got circa 50 at his office lol
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Poor Mike. Boo hoo. Never mind eh...
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More like people have cottoned in that he sells fucking TAT.
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It is awful gear fair play. He got away with recycling old dead brands for a while but seems to have been found out now.
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maltloaf
It is awful gear fair play. He got away with recycling old dead brands for a while but seems to have been found out now.
Yes agree and the working conditions has put him in the lime light on a number of occasions
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Fear345
More like people have cottoned in that he sells fucking TAT.
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maltloaf
It is awful gear fair play. He got away with recycling old dead brands for a while but seems to have been found out now.
Exact reason why I wouldn't purchase anything in there, they use the same technique as TK Maxx, buy old brands, place a premium price on it and then say it's discounted at 50% when in fact it's worth more like 10% of the price.
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Different from TK max , SD buy up failed brands and put clothes back into production . if you look it up tells you what brand names he owns.
anyhoo good , hes a cunt
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plug1
Different from TK max , SD buy up failed brands and put clothes back into production . if you look it up tells you what brand names he owns.
anyhoo good , hes a cunt
For years I thought TK Maxx did that as well with the older lesser known brands they sell but just checked after you're post and as you said they don't, fook know's where I got that idea from lol.