B&Q records profits of €3.2m

B&Q Ireland has swung into the black with pre-tax profits of €3.2 million following losses in the previous year.

In it latest set of accounts, covering the year to the end of January 2009 the company said trading performance was in line with expectations.

The company refers to a fatality in its Tallaght store in the accounts and said the directors “regret to report” such an incident. In March this year a customer in his 50s was killed when fencing fell on top of him from a top shelf storage area at the retail store in Dublin.