Fashion, homeware and home furnishings retailer The White Company has reported a decline in sales and profit.
According to its latest filed accounts for the year ended 2 August 2025, total sales fell 4% to £287.7m from £299.7m in 2024.
Underlying EBITDA stood at £33.3m, down from £39.3m, while pre-tax profit resulted at £2.6m, down from £20.7m recorded the previous year.
UK sales were down to £274.9m to £276m, while export revenues decreased to £12.8m from £23.6m.
Stated within its report, the company said: “The year ending 2 August 2025 was a year of change in the business – centred around a significant Distribution Centre (DC) reorganisation. These changes, although very disruptive in the year, provide greater capacity to support our growth. Our financials for the year reflect this investment. Now substantially complete, our Supply Chain is well positioned to support our future ambitions.
“As we embedded a new DC and ways of working, we were required to manage output and, at times, suppress online trade to protect customer experience. Despite this disruption, Turnover for the period still finished at £288m (2024: £300m), of which 96% was derived in the UK.
“Our retail trading performance remained robust, driven by our strong customer service ethos and ongoing product improvements. The success of our store proposition has meant we continue to look to add to the retail estate. During the period, we opened five new stores (two relocations) and one concession in the UK. The store portfolio now stands at 62 Stores and 12 Concessions.
“Our digital channel remains an important element of our business. We continue to invest in our digital marketing activity aimed at driving website traffic and attracting new customers, whilst our website improvement program helps create a digital platform to enable future growth. We continue to offer selected ranges on Selfridges website and work with a range of other high quality third parties.
“Looking forward, we remain optimistic our flourishing brand and compelling customer offer, coupled with our product and infrastructure investments, will enable future growth.”
