JD Sports Fashion has announced strong trading over Christmas, putting the sportswear retailer on track to deliver annual profits in line with market expectations.
The retailer said that it had such a strong performance over Christmas that like-for-like sales for its core fascia stores for the 48 weeks ending January 4th 2014 were now ahead of the 5.8% growth seen in the first half of the financial year.
JD said it now plans to focus on other fascias within the group and look at ways to improve their performance also.
The JD executive chairman, Peter Cowgill said: "Christmas 2013 has seen yet another very robust performance from our core sports fascias. Throughout recent years of considerable change and expansion for the group, the core sports fascias' proposition has continued to be developed and enhanced. I am delighted that the most recent six weeks' trading has continued to give confidence for the future. I also expect considerable further progress elsewhere in the group in 2014."
