White Stuff has bucked the economic gloom by notching up record profits for the 2009 financial year. The company has posted a 42% rise in underlying profits to £13.3m in the year to April 26, 2009. Total sales at the 60-strong chain, whose slogan is “lovely clothes for lovely people”, rose 34% to £58.4m, with home-shopping sales up 70%. The sales did not come at the expense of profit margins, which edged up by 1.3%