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French luxury group PPR posts strong first-half sales

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AFP
Published
Jul 26, 2012

French luxury and retail group PPR on Thursday said first half net profit was up 5.9 percent from a year earlier to 477 million euros on solid growth in its luxury business.

The company said sales were up in the January-to-June period by 17 percent from a year before at 6.39 billion euros ($7.85 billion).


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The numbers were higher than the 5.1 percent increase in net profit and 15 percent increase in sales forecast by analysts polled by Dow Jones Newswires.

The company said sales of luxury goods, which include fashion brands like Gucci, Yves Saint Laurent and jeweler Boucheron, were up 30.7 percent to 2.9 billion euros.

But sales in the sports and lifestyle division dropped 9.2 percent, dragged down by the poor performance of Puma.

"PPR's performance is very satisfactory, and even excellent in luxury," group finance director Jean-Marc Duplaix said in a conference call.

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