Posts Tagged ‘2009 year’
Next pre-tax profits up 18%
Fashion chain Next has today announced its pre-tax profits for the 2009 year rose 18% to £505.3 million.
The retailer said annual revenues rose to £3,406 million, from £3,271.5 million the previous year.
Chairman of the fashion chain, John Barton, described 2009 as “an extraordinary year” and added it had seen a “marked improvement” in its ranges [...]
BP posts 45% fall in annual profit
Oil giant BP has today posted a 45% fall to £8.75 billion in 2009-annual profit compared with the 2008 year.
Meanwhile profit for the fourth quarter of 2009 rose 33% to £2.16 billion ($3.45 billion) compared with the $2.59 billion posted a year earlier, as a result of the recovery in oil prices. However, the quarter [...]