NEXT is a UK based retailer offering exciting, beautifully designed, excellent quality

fashion and accessories for men, women and children together with a full range of

homewares# NEXT distributes through three main channels:


■NEXT Retail, a chain of more than 500 stores in the UK and Eire;
■NEXT Directory, a home shopping catalogue and website with around 3 million active customers and international websites serving approximately 50 countries; and
■NEXT International, with almost 200 mainly franchised stores around the world#
Other businesses in the NEXT group include:■NEXT Sourcing, which designs, sources and buys NEXT branded products;
■Lipsy, which designs and sells its own branded younger women's fashion products through retail, internet and wholesale channels; and
The parent company, NEXT plc, is listed on the London Stock Exchange #LSE: NXT#L# and is a member of the FTSE 100 Index# Total revenues for the year ended January 2012 were £3#5 billion with underlying pre-tax profits of £570 million# NEXT's head office is located in Enderby on the outskirts of Leicester, England

http://www.next.co.uk/

Dividend Declaration
Special dividend

Further to the release of its Trading Statement earlier this morning, the Company confirms that a special dividend of 50 pence per share will be paid on 3 February 2014 to those members on the Company's register at the close of business on 17 January 2014. Shares will trade ex-dividend from 15 January 2014.

that's a hell of a breakout

Next raises profit forecasts as Britain goes mad for Christmas jumpers

By Jamie Nimmo

January 03 2014, 7:43am
Next raises profit forecasts as Britain goes mad for Christmas jumpers

Clothing retailer Next (LON:NXT) followed in the footsteps of John Lewis and House of Fraser by revealing bumper festive sales, which were “significantly ahead of our expectations”.

The High Street stalwart also proved Debenhams’ poor sales, which prompted a profit warning on Tuesday, were a problem of its own making as it raised its full-year profit guidance.

A strong fourth quarter means the retailer now predicts profit of between £684mln and £700mln for the 12 months to January 25.

The bottom end of this new guidance would represent 10% growth, while the upper end would imply a 12.6% increase.

Store sales were up 7.7% from November 1 to December 24, while Directory sales – items ordered online and using the catalogue – jumped 21% in the same period, meaning an overall rise of 11.9%.

Next put the strong performance in the crucial Christmas shopping period down to the popularity of its Christmas jumpers and nightwear.

It warned that this trend may not continue into the first half of the new financial year and said it could be difficult to match the sales in the same period finishing January 2015, especially since it predicts no pick-up in consumer spending this year.

It has also decided to pay a special dividend of 50p a share on February 3 to shareholders on the books by January 17 given low interest rates.

Next said it expects to returns another £300mln of surplus cash to investors either through more quarterly special dividends or buybacks, depending on the share price

A 'lollipop' on a candle chart!

fantastic figures ..... what more to say?

Bad luck Debenhams :-))

debenhams = bad buying more than anything else

shortie are you still short your 5502 ? are you alive ?

What I forgot to say the other day was Marks sale also draws customers away from other stores, ie Debenhams.

I believe he closed that in profit.

Im afraid price didn't let him close at a profit skinny

Shortie did you have hard stop?
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if yes what was the slippage at execution..just wondering how they handle that massive gap/if you had that stop of course...

shut up tomasz .... gloating is one of several of your least appealing aspects

Not nice tomasz, at least he had the balls to post his trade. Shit happen eh!

cynic don't act emotionaly like old gramma in a front of a church, this is purely technical question,geezer..

thanks for the support chris, though i'm always happy to stand up alone

anyway, my daughter will be pleased by the numbers

cut the bullshit and the pretend pidgin tomasz
your comment to shortie was intentionally spiteful and gloating
as chris says, at least shortie has the balls to post, whereas as you, only post post-event or in intentionally unintelligible gibberish
just crawl back under your stone

Chris , trading is not a place of being emotional otherwise this is not place for you.Gathering in a sympathy for cardinal mistakes is good for old puppies in a church or loosers in a pub . providing information is good for learnig process.

why you just not go and f... yourself old geezer...this you who is spiteful and gloathing.get off me and not yours conversation you sucker.