Tu Clothes’s womenswear assortment led the cost with a 13% year-on-year improve in gross sales within the 16-week interval.
Sainsbury’s attributed the expansion to a “robust seasonal efficiency within the hotter climate”.
The 8% rise in clothes gross sales noticed Sainsbury’s outperform the UK clothes, footwear and equipment market in quantity progress, based on Kantar Worldpanel information for the 12 weeks ended 25 Could.
The gross sales progress was additionally increased than Sainsbury’s common merchandise and clothes division efficiency, which elevated by 4.2% throughout the quarter, in addition to complete retail gross sales, together with meals, which grew by 4.9% within the interval.
Sainsbury’s confirmed it’s on observe to ship an underlying working revenue of round £1bn and free money stream of greater than £500m within the 2025/26 monetary 12 months.
Chief government Simon Roberts (pictured) mentioned: “We have now nice momentum, rising sooner than the marketplace for three consecutive years and we’re properly set to ship one other robust efficiency over the summer time.”
