Facts and Figures
* 243 stores
* 275,600 square metres of selling space
* Circa 8,000 employees
* Comet is owned by OpCapita LLP a private investment partnership which specialises in the retail, consumer and leisure sectors.
For further information on OpCapita LLP visit www.opcapita.co.uk
Website
The Comet website - www.comet.co.uk - offers easy, convenient shopping and with Comet's click and collect service you can reserve online and collect in store an hour later.
Home Delivery
* 13 home delivery platforms circa 650 employees
* 1.3 million deliveries completed annually.
After Sales Service
Comet is unique in the scale of its after sales operation, providing:
* 14 service centres
* over 600 engineers
* over 750,000 jobs completed annually.
Call Centres
Through its call centres in Hull and Clevedon 700+ colleagues take 7 million calls per year.
Results
|
Year |
2002/3 |
2003/4 |
2004/5 |
2005/6 |
2006/7 |
2007/8 |
2008/9 |
2009/10 |
2010/11 |
|
Sales (£m) |
1,406.1 |
1,444.4 |
1,538.1 |
1,530 |
1,676.5 |
1,731.6 |
1,659.6 |
1,650.2 |
1,537.9 |
|
Retail Profit (£m) |
43.3 |
47.4 |
52.0 |
38.0 |
46.1 |
44.2 |
10.1 |
11.5 |
(8.9) |
| All figures correct as of July 2011 | |||||||||