The garden centre business, bought for £156m in 2007, reported a £48m loss last year after booking £54.4m in impairments on assets, including stores.
Sean Farrell (@farrell_s) KPMG's Walker says he found greater chance of future impairments on £10bn non-standard Britannia loans than Brit thought would happen.
The impairments on the HBOS loan book represented a loss rate of 10.5%, about twice as bad as Royal Bank of Scotland.
But it slid to a big loss from a pre-tax profit of £6.6m in the prior year, after booking £54.4m in impairments on assets, including stores.
Earnings slipped 3% to $7.33bn but this was slightly higher than forecasts, before a $2.9bn charge relating to impairments on refineries in Asia and Europe.
There was also a charge of £7.5m in "asset impairments" on "publishing rights that reflect the continued weakness and uncertain outlook in the group's print portfolio".
Even Ireland's lavish guarantee does not quell concerns about rising impairments on the Irish banks' property portfolios.
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However, there was an increase in impairments on credit cards and loans.
