Champion Sports rings up €9.6m in pre-tax profits

The company that operates the Champion Sports chain of stores earned profits of more than €9m last year, according to the latest returns to the Companies' Registration Office quoted in the Irish Times.

The figures show that Irish-registered Champion Products Europe Ltd, had sales of €24.4m in the year to June 30, 2003, just under €1m more than in the previous 14-month period covered in its last annual returns.