| Our concerns remain over the continued high level of exceptionals and lack of cash generation. |
| The meeting of two exceptionals lines have produced a very resistant and strong descendance offering at the same time a perfectly hybridised quality of the both parents. |
| Retail analyst Nick Bubb predicts the group will make profits before exceptionals of £370m for the year to the end of January. |
| Stripping out exceptionals and adjusting for onerous lease contracts, profits fell. |
| Dublin-based Goodbody Stockbrokers had forecast an operating loss of 15 million euros before exceptionals in the first half. |
| Johnston is at least profitable, earning £30.8m operating profit before exceptionals, but the company is desperate to pay down its £330m debt load by £40m a year. |
