ANALYSIS: JJB’s fragile recovery still under threat
Author: Richard Woodard | 27 May 2010
The full-year figures unveiled by UK retailer JJB Sports today (27 May) make for predictably grim reading - but it's something of a miracle that the company is still around to give a trading update at all.
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