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...Friedman, a retail veteran who famously took the Williams-Sonoma-owned Pottery Barn business from a $50mn tableware business to a $1bn-plus furniture brand as its president, has transformed the fortunes...
...Comparable revenues — or sales at stores open at least 12 months — slid 0.4 per cent at its largest division, Pottery Barn....
...Comparable brand revenue and Pottery Barn Kids and Teen rose 5.7 per cent....
...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...
...The company — whose brands include Pottery Barn, West Elm and its namesake Williams-Sonoma lines — said that net revenue for the quarter ending January 28 was up 6.2 per cent from a year ago to $1.68bn,...
...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....
...And the best souvenir I’ve brought home was some handmade, black-clay La Chamba pottery from Colombia....
...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....
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...Bed Bath & Beyond’s downbeat results follow weak reports from Restoration Hardware and Williams Sonoma, which owns Pottery Barn....
...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....
...Williams-Sonoma, which also owns the Pottery Barn and West Elm stores, projected full-year sales between $4.6bn and $4.7bn with earnings as high as $3.15 a share....
...Retailers working with Facebook on Collections include high-end department store Neiman Marcus, lingerie shop Victoria’s Secret, homewares group Pottery Barn and design site Fab.com....
...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....
...I created youth talk shows, such as Teen Summit....
...She entered the retail world two years later as a planner for US homewares group Pottery Barn in San Francisco, and joined the family firm in 2008....
...The sharp cost cuts mitigated slumping sales at the company, which also owns the Pottery Barn furnishings chain, and the shares rose 11.3 per cent to $17.21....
...Barn (home furnishings) and Williams Sonoma (cookware) to confine their presence to English-speaking Canada....
...It acquired Pottery Barn, the home furnishings retailer, the following year, but sold it two years later....
...Yes, I read Elle Décor and the home magazines but if I see a piece I like at Pottery Barn or Restoration Hardware – amazing, affordable furniture – I’m overjoyed to buy those pieces....
...Home furnishings stores like Pottery Barn have created comfortable, homelike atmospheres where products are displayed as they might appear in your home....
...Williams Sonoma, the kitchenware chain that is Pottery Barn's parent, is generating much of its new business online....
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