Reseller Repton claims it has closed the books on its most successful year yet having breached the £40m turnover mark for the first time.

The reseller said it has banked a preliminary pre-tax profit of £800,000 for the year to 30 September, double its previous best. Last year it hit a profit of about £200,000 on sales of £31.5m.

Greg Carlow, managing director of Repton, said: “We are disgustingly happy with the results. We had about £9m of back orders on the books when we entered the year and we will finish with £11m.

“We are aware we are on thin ice with the credit crunch – it feels like a false paradise because we have achieved good results from securing our biggest contracts to date this year.”