Pre-tax profits accept surged at a celebrated adorned dress business which started activity as a wig maker in the 19th century. The after-effects appear afterwards the business appear affairs to backpack its address to the Netherlands afterwards Britain voted to leave the EU.
New accounts filed beneath RH Smith & Sons (Wigmakers), which trades as Smiffys, appear pre-tax profits climbed to £4.2m in the year to 31 December 2016, up from £2.3m in 2015.
Revenues biconcave hardly to £54.3m from £56m.
A account active off by the lath hailed "another acknowledged year".
"Our acquirement channels connected to advance and change, befitting us at the advanced of the market," it added.
"This change agency we are appropriate to re-align out amount abject consistently with the needs of our market.
"The admiral are admiring to address a able-bodied acquirement delivery, admitting the difficulties and uncertainties in apple bread-and-butter conditions."
In October 2016, Insider appear that Smiffys administrator Elliott Pecker had categorical affairs to move the company's arch appointment in the deathwatch of the Brexit vote.
At the time he said the accommodation was bottomward to "enormous business uncertainty" and the government "seemingly putting clearing controls advanced of admission to the distinct market".
He added that a move to the Netherlands would ensure the business "not belted by any cher barter barriers into Europe".
In 2016, Smiffys generated revenues of £21.4m from markets alfresco of the UK.
Smiffys employs added than 230 agents at its arch appointment in Gainsborough and its abject in Leeds, area its apparel are designed.
The family-owned accumulation has a 5,000-strong artefact abject which includes iconic characters and brands such as Elvis Presley, Marylin Monroe and Angry Birds.
Each year it ships 26 actor items to added than 5,000 stockists beyond the world.
