WH Smith - Travel business boosts salespublished at 08:00 British Summer Time 8 June 2016
Retailer WH Smith's "Travel" part of its business - the shops with a more captive audience, in places like airports, railway stations, motorway service areas, workplaces, and hospitals - has helped to boost group sales by 2% in the last three months. Travel sales were up 9%, offsetting a 4% decline in High Street sales. Like-for-like sales across the group were flat.
Quote MessageLooking ahead we continue to focus on profitable growth, cash generation and investing in the business to position us well for the future. We remain confident in the outcome for the full year.
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