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Topps Tiles

July 2025

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  • Epic Code:
  • TPT
  • Price:
  • 37.5p
The rate cut in May has kick-started improved trading  for retail tile specialist Topps, which announced its H1 results. Sales were up  4.1% to £127.8m, with the Topps Tiles brand achieving 3% like-for-like sales growth.   Operating profit rose 19% but increased bank debt and lease charges limited pretax profit increase to 3.2%. Encouragingly, Q2 accelerated sales (+4.4% year-on-year from 3.3% in Q1) while the start to H2 has gained again to +9.5% during the first seven weeks. CTD, which will become a trade only business, achieved £15.1m sales and posted a £1m loss. There will be £2.8m exceptional costs for the full year to cover further trading losses and restructuring but almost £2m savings has been identified and should ...

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