Fashion and food retailer Woolworths expects its interim profit to rise more than one fifth as more customers return to its physical stores, particularly in Australia, where government-imposed lockdowns kept customers at home.

The company, valued at R68.7bn on the JSE, said on Wednesday that its headline earnings per share (Heps), a measure of profit that strips out impairments and one-off items, would jump by at least 33.6c in the 26 weeks to December 25, from the 168.2c reported in the same period in 2021...

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