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However, its share prices fell in early morning stock market trading today, as it revealed another half-year loss for subsidiary Comet.
The electrical appliance retailer lost £1.2 million over the course of the two quarters despite increased revenues of £26 million, although this was an improvement on the same period of 2008, when it generated losses of £8.1 million.
Commenting on the figures, Kesa chief executive Thierry Falque-Pierrotin said: "Trading conditions across all our markets continued to be challenging with widely varying geographic market conditions.
"However, the group has delivered a solid performance over the first half of the year."
Kesa's shares had fallen in value by more than two points on the London Stock Exchange after half an hour of trading, but recovered by around half a point by 09:10 GMT.
Posted by Greg Secker
