Overall results were down sharply for fiscal 2008 at Bloomsbury due to comparisons to the launch of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, with sales falling by more than a third to 99.95 million pounds, with pre-tax profits of 11.63 million pounds. But the company offers itself long and hearty congratulations as “it re-balances its business in the wake of the Harry Potter phenomenon and of the demands of a global recession.” Units in both the US and Germany improved during the year, with US sales up 29.4 percent to 17.32 million (essentially all due to the decline of the […]
