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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Business
Simon English

JD Sports profits to top £1bn thanks to Nike Air Force One shoes

PROFITS at JD Sports will top £1 billion next year, as chief executive Régis Schultz shrugged off negative chatter about the state of the UK economy and insisted the company’s own growth potential remains huge.

JD Sports has grown from a penny stock into a £7 billion FTSE 100 giant, in defiance of critics who once took a snooty attitude to its wares – and its customers.

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