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...Additional reporting by David Sheppard and Neil Hume...
...(FT) Earnings Investors will be following clothing chain Abercrombie & Fitch’s fortunes for signs on the impact of US tariffs on Chinese imports, while the trade war will probably also dent earnings at...
...“There have been a number of mis-steps,” said Neil Saunders, managing director of GlobalData Retail....
...Hawaii Governor Neil Abercrombie will appoint a replacement, choosing from a list of three candidates selected by the state Democratic Party....
...However, the brand faces strong competition, whether it is from SuperGroup’s Superdry label, Abercrombie & Fitch of the US, or White Stuff....
...Oil Earnings ● BHP Billiton, the world’s largest resource company by market value, is set to announce a sharp drop in profits for the six months to December when it reports half-year results, writes Neil...
...On their return from the moon in 1969, Neil Armstrong and his crew were quarantined in an Airstream until it could be determined they were free from “lunar pathogens”....
...“There’s no volume growth in the UK clothing market, so every gain Forever 21 makes is going to come at the expense of someone else,” said Neil Saunders, consulting director at retail research specialist...
...While Georgia boasted its low cost of production, North Carolina’s governor Bev Perdue made a hard sell on her state’s educated work force, biotech industry and its tourism industry and Hawaii’s Neil Abercrombie...
...Then you add in the franchises, the wholesale, the online stores … Based on our analysis of comparative companies such as Abercrombie & Fitch and its store build-out phase, we believe SuperGroup is currently...
...Supergroup is two years into the five-year expansion cycle seen in sector peers such as Abercrombie & Fitch, Goldman argued....
...At a time where the US back to school season seems soft, US retailers more cautious (eg Abercrombie’s inventories up nearly 50% QoQ), we have been recommending closing long positions in this sector....
...“We think there is a 40 per cent chance that Supergroup could go on to become a big new global superbrand like Abercrombie & Fitch,” said analyst Nick Bubb....
...US and European retailers, including Abercrombie & Fitch, have threatened to ban Australian wool if mulesing is not abolished....
...There may well be a hit among the list of newcomers but there is not a hype generator of the scale of Abercrombie & Fitch, the US brand that opened in London last year....
...Neil Stern, at McMillan Doolittle retail consultants, argues that Gap has become a victim of its own success....
...Gap fell 2.1 per cent to $18.43, while Abercrombie, which reported last week, eased 0.5 per cent to $64.92....
...Abercrombie & Fitch, the clothing retailer, reported a 58 per cent rise in fourth quarter profit, but the shares fell 2.1 per cent to $67.33 after the company warned full-year earnings expectations were...
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