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Our Results for the Year Ending January 2023 have landed! Here are the headlines: 💸 Full price sales up +6.9% versus 2021/22 and +20.5% against 2019/20. Total Trading Sales, including markdown, were up +8.4% versus 2021/22 and +20.6% against 2019/20. 💷 Profit before tax of £870m, up +5.7% versus 2021/22 and +16.3% against 2019/20. This is +£10m higher than our previous guidance of £860m. 🛍 Clearance rates in our end-of-season Sale were ahead of our expectations and added a further £5m to profit. 📊 Full price sales in January were flat and in line with our guidance. However, the participation of higher margin Retail sales was greater than expected, which added £5m to profit. 📈 Basic Earnings Per Share (EPS) 573.4p, up +8.0% versus 2021/22 and +21.4% versus 2019/20. Read the full report here: https://bit.ly/3zdK97Z
Ever wondered what it's like to work in a finance role? We spoke to a few members of the finance team to learn more about their careers at NEXT. Explore what it means to deal with the budgets and forecast the future of a FTSE 100 company in the UK. From Fraud Analysts to Pensions Officers, our Finance team helps to support all kinds of important business decisions, not to mention shaping our budgets, analysing our sales, managing costs and much more. They enable NEXT to succeed by ensuring we are a cost effective, scalable operation delivering great products and services in an agile and responsive way.
What's it really like working for one of the UK"s biggest retailers? Watch the video and discover what it means to be part of the product teams at NEXT.
Taking Technology to the NEXT level. At Next we never underestimate what you can do. Bring your energy, play to your strengths and never shy away from change. Push yourself and back others. Make things happen that will be bigger and better than before. Our innovative tech professionals are the ones who will make change possible. We have the infrastructure, expertise and technology to provide innovative solutions to businesses and brands, so they can deliver best-in-class service to their customers. Find out more here: https://careers.next.co.uk/#en/sites/CX_3001/pages/26002
You know it's Christmas when...✨ That's right we love a bit of the festive season at Next! We love it that much that we change our logo far and wide across the land. We even update it at the Head Office Campus in Leicester to ramp up the Christmas season a few bits. Check the video out to see.
Wilfred Emmanuel-Jones will be LIVE on Youtube from the Next Head Office Campus on Thursday 27th October 2022. Wilfred is known as 'The Black Farmer'. He has built a successful and award winning business. He has a mission to inspire the next generation and to encourage diversity in the industry. Watch and listen to Wilfred and Kash, the Next Ecomm Director and Unity at Next main sponsor. discuss their stories and success.
Kash, our E Commerce Director talks about his background, his role and why Unity at Next is so important to the brand and to him. Unity at Next is the network group of employees launched in 2021. They are focused on uniting, appreciating and celebrating the cultural diversity represented by employees and customers at Next. The objective is to work with the business to be part of the effort to ensure that this is a workplace that enables everyone to bring their authentic self to work and equally supports the needs of all employees to develop and achieve their full potential at Next. The network are a voice for ethnic diversity and equality at Next. They have designed a community to create an open and safe space for education, discussion and celebration of employees from underrepresented ethnic backgrounds across the business.
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A strong set of results are in for the first half of the year in 2022! Read the headlines below: Performance in the Six Months to July 2022 🛍 Brand full price sales up +12.4% versus 2021 (and +22.3% against 2019). 💷 Profit before tax of £401m, up +16% versus 2021 (and +22% against 2019). More details about the results are in the link.
In this video, you'll hear from one of our Assistant Buyers, Lucy, from our Head Office Campus to find out about how her career started. Lucy started at Next as a Trainee and has learned so much. She has shared her experience, tips and first thoughts with us! We welcome students and graduates to a large number of departments at Next. We provide in-house training schemes and personal development programmes to give them the best possible start in their chosen careers. In return, they can use their expertise to help shape the future of one of the UK’s biggest retailers. Click here to apply: https://careers.next.co.uk/#en/sites/CX_3001/pages/12020
