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...Plant owners’ sales volumes are dropping even as wholesale meat prices soar....
...Within that, ecommerce sales climbed 14.3 per cent from a year ago. Comparable revenues — or sales at stores open at least 12 months — slid 0.4 per cent at its largest division, Pottery Barn....
...Comparable revenue, a measure of sales at stores open at least a year, at Pottery Barn climbed 2 per cent, and rose 9.5 per cent and 1.6 per cent respectively at its West Elm and Williams-Sonoma brands....
...The other issue is more speculative: the threat posed by ASF should it cross the ocean and end up in American hog barns....
...sales growth and e-commerce gains — during the past quarter....
...All of Williams-Sonoma’s major retail brands — Pottery Barn, Pottery Barn Kids and Teen, West Elm and its namesake line — posted positive comparable sales growth, with West Elm’s 9 per cent putting it at...
...Loeb’s firm has advocated for, among other things, a sale of Campbell’s. The PLX decision seems to indicate that any activist-driven sale could attract special review by the courts....
...However, like-for-like sales growth of 1.2 per cent at Pottery Barn and 1.9 per cent at its namesake brand both missed analysts’ expectations....
...Williams-Sonoma, which owns West Elm and Pottery Barn, fell 2.4 per cent to $52.59 while RH, formerly Restoration Hardware, shed nearly 3 per cent to $99.48....
...and West Elm furniture stores helped offset some of the sales slide at Pottery Barn....
...The Stone Barns Restoration Corporation, known for the restaurant Blue Hill, is also among the list of beneficiaries....
...Bed Bath & Beyond’s downbeat results follow weak reports from Restoration Hardware and Williams Sonoma, which owns Pottery Barn....
...A 10-bedroom home in Woodstock with views of the Catskills is on sale through Douglas Elliman for $5.25m....
...She runs the company from her home in Pleasantville in upstate New York, and sources her flowers from a friend, Shannon Algiere, who grows them on a nearby nonprofit farm, Stone Barns....
...Yet it owns several famous women’s and girls’ specialist chains including Lane Bryant, Dress Barn, Charming Shoppes and Justice. That medley has not created much value of late....
...There is a consolidation play afoot among companies that own barns full of servers, the machines powering the internet revolution....
...Williams-Sonoma, the upmarket furniture retailer that also owns the Pottery Barn and West Elm brands, led the declines despite reporting profit and sales growth....
...That has helped Williams-Sonoma, the operator of its namesake and high-end Pottery Barn and West Elm stores, which forecast 5 to 7 per cent same-store sales growth in the second quarter....
...Results were buoyed by 18 per cent same-store sales growth at West Elm and a 15 per cent rise at Pottery Barn. The two units account for more than half of Williams-Sonoma sales....
...Other issuers include American Express, General Electric and WFN, whose white-label store cards are used by Victoria’s Secret, Pottery Barn, Ann Taylor and other chains....
...The company won’t divulge sales figures, although it has sold at least 13,000 of previous versions since 2009....
...Thomas Olsen fled to Britain in 1940, hiding the work from the Nazis in a neighbour’s barn until Norway’s liberation in 1945....
...There is also a purpose-built barn for drying and fermenting prizewinning vin santo. The asking price for the property is €39m, and it is being sold through Beatrice Sidoli at the Real Luxury Inc....
...The business, founded by Paul Lindley in 2006 and named after his daughter, operates from an Oxfordshire barn....
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