LONDON, Sept 21 (Reuters) - British home improvement
retailer Kingfisher reported a 61.6% jump in first-half
profit on the back of a pandemic do-it-yourself boom and raised
its sales expectations for the second half.
The group, which owns B&Q and Screwfix in the United Kingdom
and Castorama and Brico Depot in France and other markets, made
an adjusted pretax profit of 669 million pounds ($914.3
million)for the six months ended July 31 - ahead of guidance of
645-660 million pounds and up from 415 million pounds in the
same period last year.
($1 = 0.7317 pounds)
(Reporting by James Davey, Editing by Paul Sandle)
Kingfisher (KGF)
