UK chocolate maker Thorntons has said its sales improved in the weeks approaching Valentine’s Day, after a disappointing Christmas.


Like-for-like sales at its Thorntons shops were up 3.6% in the first five weeks of the second half of its financial year, compared with a 1.6% rise for the first half to 11 January.


Pre-tax profit for the first half was up 10% year-on-year to £10.9m (US$17.2m).


 

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