By Elliot Gulliver-Needham Profit at JD Wetherspoon over the last year exceeded even the high expectations from the market, bringing in £73.9m of pre-tax profit, compared to expectations of £72m. The chain of pubs reported it had made more than £2bn in sales over the year to the end of July, an eight per cent increase from last year and bringing up profit by more than 74 per cent. “Sales continue to improve. In the last nine weeks, to 29 September 2024, like-for-like sales increased by 4.9 per cent,” said Wetherspoons chief Tim Martin. “The company currently anticipates a reasonable outcome fo…