Retailer Next issues warning on Brexit and two-week lockdown

Laveta Brigham

Next reported better-than-expected sales. Photo: PA Next (NXT.L) expects to make pre-tax profits of £365m ($473m) this year, despite the coronavirus crisis exacerbating UK high streets’ woes. But it sounded the alarm on Wednesday over both a no-deal Brexit and potential two-week nationwide lockdown, saying it had seen no evidence […]