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Boohoo has reported a 41% rise in full-year sales as home working fuelled demand for athleisure, making up for a slump in going out gear.
The online retailer said customers bought more activewear and loungewear during the pandemic.
But it saw significant declines in areas such as dresses and going out clothes due to Covid lockdowns.
Over the year, Boohoo bought a number of High Street brands which foundered in the pandemic, including Debenhams.
It also acquired Dorothy Perkins, Wallis and Burton from Sir Philip Green s Arcadia Group. Manchester-based Boohoo said it expects these new acquisitions to contribute about 5% to sales growth in the current financial year.
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Overall supermarket sales rose by 5.7 per cent to £31.6billion in the 12 weeks to April 18 in a further slowdown in the rate of growth seen a year earlier when shoppers panic-bought at the start of the coronavirus crisis.
But one-month figures showed a return to growth with take-home grocery sales rising by 6.5 per cent in the four weeks to April 18.
Kantar said that, after the initial pre-lockdown rush in 2020, last April was comparatively quiet.
The figures also come as wider retail reopened on April 12, with lockdown restrictions lifting for non-essential retail across England.
The last year has forced shops to adapt - adopting measures such as floor markings for social distancing, one-way systems and checkout screens
The shops you can no longer visit at Merry Hill
A number of shops units are now boarded up after retailers closed their doors for good.
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