Carpetright sales improve a touch

Flooring retailer Carpetright said like-for-like sales in the UK improved 1.7%, as the wetter than usual weather encouraged shoppers into stores to pick up the latest deals in laminate flooring and beds.

Flooring retailer Carpetright said like-for-like sales in the UK improved 1.7%, as the wetter than usual weather encouraged shoppers into stores to pick up the latest deals in laminate flooring and beds.

The group, which issued a string of profits warnings in the past year, said it continued to the positive trend experienced in the second half of the last financial year and expectations for the year as a whole remain unchanged.

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