Profits across the list rose from £459m to a total of £2bn.

Its profits in the same period rose 35 percent, to $43.6 million.

Best Buy's profit rose 75 percent during the same period.

Profit for the year rose about 10 percent, to $1.77 billion.

For the first half of 1988, profits rose 22.6 percent, to $283 million.

The company said that profits rose 17 percent during all of 1996.

Profits, however, rose to $875 million because of low credit costs.

Including the special items, the company's profits rose about 35 percent.

For the year, its profits rose 16 percent, to $332.3 million.

The company's profits rose 81 percent in 2005, to $165 million, then last year it lost all that and a bit more.