Luxury goods group Richemont said it had seen "unprecedented levels of disruption" from the COVID-19 pandemic in the three months to June 30, leading its sales to almost halve, but most stores had reopened since.

Sales fell 47% to 1.99 billion euros (£1.81 billion) in the group's first quarter, the maker of Cartier jewellery and IWC watches said in a statement on Thursday, a similar decline to peer Swatch Group.

(Reporting by Silke Koltrowitz; Editing by Michael Shields)