Britain's Next sees lower 着せる/賦与するing インフレーション, 株 下落する on 用心深い 見通し

2022-23 利益(をあげる) up better-than-推定する/予想するd 5.7%

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Sees prices up 7% in spring/summer, up 3% in autumn/winter

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持続するs sales and 利益(をあげる) 指導/手引 for 2023-24

(追加するs 詳細(に述べる), 株, story links)

By James Davey

LONDON, March 29 (Reuters) - British fashion retailer Next 報告(する)/憶測d a better-than-推定する/予想するd 5.7% rise in 年次の 利益(をあげる) on Wednesday and said it would not need to 増加する prices by as much as 以前 thought.

However, it still 推定する/予想するs higher spending on 給料, energy and 科学(工学)技術 to 減ずる its 利益(をあげる) this year, and the retailer's 株 were 負かす/撃墜する 6% in morning 貿易(する)ing after it 保持するd its 用心深い 見通し.

Next, which 貿易(する)s from about 500 蓄える/店s and online and is often considered a good 晴雨計 of how British 消費者s are faring, said inflationary 圧力s were 推定する/予想するd to 緩和する as freight costs 減少(する) and the cost of goods 改善するs.

The company has shown more resilience than most to the cost-of living 危機 in Britain and is considered by 分析家s to be one of the best run retailers in the country. Its 株 had been up 16% this year 事前の to Wednesday's update.

It now 推定する/予想するs 7% like-for-like price インフレーション in the spring-summer season and 3% in autumn-winter - 負かす/撃墜する from its previous 予測(する) of 8% and 6%, それぞれ.

That 反映するd a 重要な 減少(する) in コンテナ freight costs and 改善するing factory gate prices - the price at which it 購入(する)s goods - 予定 to 増加するd factory capacity and 成果/努力s to move 生産/産物 to lower 定価つきの sources of 供給(する).

"We still 心配する we'll be movin g 生産/産物 out of 中国 and into other 地域s like Bangladesh, India, South East Asia," CEO Simon Wolfson told Reuters.

"But if I look at the things that are moving the dial, it's more within those 領土s, finding new sources of 供給(する) rather than moving countries."

FALLING INFLATION

Next's 改善するd price 見通し fits with a Bank of England 予測(する) for インフレーション to 落ちる from its 10.4% 年次の 率 in February to below 4% by the end of 2023.

Next made a 税込みの 利益(をあげる) of 870.4 million 続けざまに猛撃するs ($1.07 billion) in the year to January 2023, up from 823.1 million 続けざまに猛撃するs the year before and above its 860 million 続けざまに猛撃する 指導/手引.

Sales of items sold at 十分な price rose 6.9% in 2022-23, with total sales up 8.4% to 5.15 billion 続けざまに猛撃するs.

For 2023-24, Next kept its 予測(する) for a 1.5% 拒絶する/低下する in 十分な-price sales and 利益(をあげる) of 795 million 続けざまに猛撃するs.

It 推定する/予想するs its sales 業績/成果 in the first half of the year to be 女性 than in the second half.

In the first half last year, 異常に warm summer 天候 同時に起こる/一致するd with the 解放(する) of pent-up 需要・要求する for events after the pandemic.

In the first eight weeks of its new 財政上の year, 十分な-price sales were 負かす/撃墜する 2.0%, in line with its 期待s.

Wolfson said he did not think the 下降 in the UK economy would be long 継続している and 心配するd a strong 回復 in 2024. (報告(する)/憶測ing by James Davey; Editing by Kate Holton and Tomasz Janowski)

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