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Abercrombie Earnings Preview: Reinvented Brands Can Take Charge After A Weak Q2
Abercrombie & Fitch ‘s (NYSE:ANF) shares have declined by more 60% over the past year, due to the company’s consistently weak financial performance. While the retailer’s aggressive portfolio transition from mostly basic-logo...
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Why Abercrombie & Fitch’s International Expansion Makes Sense Despite Europe Concerns
Abercrombie & Fitch (NYSE:ANF) earns close to 36% of its net revenues from international markets, with Europe being the largest contributor to its international business. Due to its ill-planned expansion in the region, which led to issues of ...
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Abercrombie & Fitch’s Aggressive Portfolio Transition Is A Necessary Risk
Abercrombie & Fitch (NYSE:ANF) is risking much by taking a giant leap in its retailing strategies in order to compensate for its lack of evolution. When consumer taste across the industry was shifting from basic logo merchandise to fashion-fo...
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A Scenario That Can Add To Abercrombie & Fitch’s Value
Abercrombie & Fitch (NYSE:ANF) has had a number of problems over the past four years that have impacted its growth significantly. Ranging from poor inventory management to bad issues in the press, these problems have driven customers to other...
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Abercrombie & Fitch Rises On Latent Signs Of Recovery
Abercrombie & Fitch (NYSE:ANF) recently reported its Q1 fiscal 2015 results and as expected, the effects of its business transition weighed heavily on its growth. The retailer’s net sales fell 14% to $709 million, while its comparable s...
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Abercrombie & Fitch’s Business Transition Will Weigh On Its Q1 Results
Abercrombie & Fitch (NYSE:ANF) is scheduled to release it Q1 fiscal 2015 earnings on May 28th. Given its weak product portfolio, strategy of aggressively phasing out logo products and an industry-wide decline in foot traffic, we expect anothe...
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Apparel Week In Review: Urban Outfitters And Abercrombie & Fitch
The past week was for Urban Outfitters (NASDAQ:URBN) and Abercrombie & Fitch (NYSE:ANF) was mostly about small progress on their respective goals. In its quest of being a prominent omni-channel retailer, Urban Outfitters has deployed several ...
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Abercrombie & Fitch’s Margins Are Expected To Fall, But They Hold Potential For 10% Upside
Abercrombie & Fitch ‘s (NYSE:ANF) overall EBITDA (earnings before interest tax depreciation & amortization) margins have trended in a wayward manner over the past five years. From 24.6% in 2010, margins declined to 22% in 2011, prim...
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Abercrombie & Fitch’s Dismal Q4 Results Raise Concerns Around Revival Strategies
There seems to be no respite for Abercrombie & Fitch (NYSE:ANF), even though it’s trying hard to win customers back. Bogged down by weak demand for both Hollister and ANF, a decline in foot traffic, weak growth in online sales and ne...
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Abercrombie & Fitch Earnings Preview: Weak Portfolio And Traffic Decline Will Subdue Growth
Abercrombie & Fitch (NYSE:ANF) has been struggling for a long time now, initially due to its over reliance on logo merchandise and lately due to its strategy of aggressively phasing out basic logo products. Amid all of this, a consistent decl...
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Abercrombie & Fitch Changing Its Long Standing Strategies
In an unrelenting retail environment, U.S. buyers have been severe on Abercrombie & Fitch (NYSE:ANF), which was a prime name in the industry a decade ago. Mike Jeffries took over his role as the CEO of the company in 1992 and transformed the...
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Abercrombie & Fitch: The 2014 Timeline
Teen apparel retailer Abercrombie & Fitch (NYSE:ANF) has consistently been in the news over the past couple of years, due to its inventory management issues, dismal performance, unwanted controversies, buyout speculations and strategies pert...
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Who Is Losing In The Decelerating Apparel Market?
The U.S. apparel market stands big at close to $250 billion, but its growth has decelerated in recent years, as buyers have scaled back their discretionary spending in the aftermath of the economic downturn. The market grew by 5.2% in 2012, 3.4% ...
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Abercrombie and Fitch’s CEO Mike Jeffries To Step Down Immediately
Following 11 consecutive quarters of comparable sales decline, Abercrombie & Fitch ‘s (NYSE:ANF) CEO Mike Jeffries has decided to retire. In a recent press release, the management stated that Mr. Jeffries will step down from his positi...
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Abercrombie & Fitch Slashes Outlook In Anticipation Of A Weak Holiday Season
Abercrombie & Fitch (NYSE:ANF) has reported its Q3 sales and earnings inline with those projections provided an update on its earnings last month. The retailer’s comparable store sales fell by 10% and its non-GAAP net income per diluted...
