EUK Sales Up

By Carmen 

Woolworths subsidiary Entertainment UK (currently embroiled in a Competition Commission Inquiry about its merger with Bertrams) reported that over the 17 weeks to June 2 like-for-like sales rose 28.4 pct over the period. Results for Woolworths, however, fell 0.6 pct — a deterioration from up 0.8 pct for the first seven weeks of the period reported on March 28. Woolworths said the performance was, however, in line with internal expectations and noted gross margin is ‘substantially ahead’ of the prior year.