| Summary: | This article reports that HarperCollins Worldwide this week reported growth in sales and profits for the seventh year in a row. Figures for Britain were not broken out. But Victoria Barnsley, chief executive of the company said that sales in the year to end-June had been ahead of budget. Barnsley said sales of primary education titles were up by 20% during the year to end-June, despite tough conditions in the market. Barnsley singled out the company's commercial fiction, children's and education as the best-performing divisions. David Beckham's "My Side" was the publisher's biggest hit of the year.
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