Online fashion retailer ASOS PLC reported a 68 percent year-on-year rise in first-half pretax profit to £4.1 million, while sales were up 107 percent at £65.7 million.
Sales for the seven weeks to November 16 2008 were up 104 percent from the same period a year earlier. The number of active customers rose 95 percent year-on-year to 947,000 as at October 31 2008. The number of unique visitors in October 2008 rose 93 percent to 4.5 million.
Established in June 2000 and admitted to AIM in October 2001, ASOS.com is the UK's largest independent online fashion and beauty retailer and offers over 19,400 branded and own label product lines across womenswear, menswear, footwear, accessories, jewellery and beauty with approximately 1,150 new product lines being introduced each week.