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American Eagle Outfitters bombs with comps in the second quarter

source: BloggingStocks

American Eagle Outfitters (NYSE: AEO), a fashion retailer that competes with Gap (NYSE: GPS) and Abercrombie & Fitch (NYSE: ANF), didn't do too well in Q2. Total sales went down 5%, and earnings per share on a GAAP basis fell a most awful 50% to 14 cents. According to Bloomberg, the adjus...

Published Fri, Aug 28

Is the tide turning for Gap?

source: just-style.com

The results come after two years of cost cutting and expense management at the San Francisco based retailer - although sales worryingly continue to fall in all its divisions. Its best performing unit was Old Navy, but there is still work to be done at the Gap, Banana Republic and internatio...

Published Mon, Aug 24

Aeropostale posts a sharp increase in Q2 profit

source: BloggingStocks

Aeropostale (NYSE: ARO), a retailer that competes with Abercrombie & Fitch (NYSE: ANF), American Eagle Outfitters (NYSE: AEO), and Gap (NYSE: GPS), posted what I thought was a superb second-quarter earnings summary on Thursday after the bell. The figures were very appealing, and...

Published Fri, Aug 21

NYSE traders to wear Gap jeans for a day?

source: BloggingStocks

The Wall Street Journal reports (subscription required) that "As part of a joint promotion between Gap Stores Inc. (NYSE: GPS) and the Big Board, traders will be outfitted with 1969 Premium Jeans from the retailer. Gap executives will ring the closing bell Friday, remotely from the compa...

Published Mon, Aug 17

Clothing retailer Eddie Bauer files for bankruptcy protection

source: google.com

 NEW YORK Our outlet stores compete with the outlet stores of other specialty retailers such as Ann Taylor, Banana Republic, Gap, J. Crew and Ralph Lauren/Polo, outdoor specialty stores such as Columbia Sportswear and North Face as well as with other ...

Published Wed, Jun 17

Activists hail move against Uzbekistan child labour (News Feature)

source: monstersandcritics.com

Key companies, including Asda Wal-Mart, the British Tesco, Marks and Spencer and Gap, the clothing retailer, have all agreed in recent months to pull out of Uzbekistan as the evidence of forced child labour in return for meagre salaries mounted. ...

Published Mon, Jun 15

Bouquets and Brickbats: No specialty retailer for Santa Maria

source: San Luis Obispo Tribune

Bakersfield Now  CA Come to think of it, what store doesn't Santa Maria have … aside from a Gap, Abercrombie & Fitch and a Pottery Barn? And aren't those specialty retailers? Maybe, just maybe, SLO will have the last laugh after all. But we'd better not LOL, ...

Published Fri, Jun 12

Bouquets and Brickbats: No specialty retailer for Santa Maria

source: San Luis Obispo Tribune

Bakersfield Now  CA Come to think of it, what store doesn't Santa Maria have … aside from a Gap, Abercrombie & Fitch and a Pottery Barn? And aren't those specialty retailers? Maybe, just maybe, SLO will have the last laugh after all. But we'd better not LOL, ...

Published Fri, Jun 12