{"id":71251,"date":"2025-09-18T09:44:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-18T09:44:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/71251\/"},"modified":"2025-09-18T09:44:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-18T09:44:08","slug":"next-posts-big-sales-and-profits-rise-but-sounds-warning-on-uk-job-market","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/71251\/","title":{"rendered":"Next posts big sales and profits rise, but sounds warning on UK job market"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"byline meta\">By <a href=\"https:\/\/www.retail-week.com\/george-arnett\/3002040.bio\" rel=\"author nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">George Arnett<\/a>2025-09-18T06:49:00<\/p>\n<p>        <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Interior of Next store in Watford\" loading=\"eager\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/3123533_1_870680.jpg\"  width=\"100\" height=\"67\" class=\"lazyloaded\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The fashion retailer reported group sales up by 10.3% and profit before tax up by 13.8% in the six months to July 2025 from 2024.<\/p>\n<p>Total group sales came in at \u00a33.2bn, while its profit before tax was \u00a3515m. The figures mean that it expects to solidify\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.retail-week.com\/next-joins-1bn-club\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">its place in UK\u00a0retail\u2019s \u00a31bn profit club<\/a>\u00a0and then some, with the retailer issuing full year pre-tax profit guidance of \u00a31.1bn (up 9.3% versus 2024).\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By George Arnett2025-09-18T06:49:00 The fashion retailer reported group sales up by 10.3% and profit before tax up by&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":71252,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[175],"tags":[79,18,19,17,188],"class_list":{"0":"post-71251","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-markets","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-eire","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-markets"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71251","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71251"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71251\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}