SGB Update

Stage Stores Dec Comps Decreased 5.8%

Stage Stores, Inc. reported that comparable store sales for the five-week period ended January 4, 2003 decreased 5.8%. Total sales decreased 3.4% to $144.3 million…

Goody’s Dec Comp Store Sales Down 1.5%

Goody's Family Clothing, Inc. reported total sales for the fiscal month of December 2002 of $184.2 million, a decrease of 1.1%. Comparable store sales for December 2002 decreased 1.5%…

Gottschalks Dec Same-Store Sales Off 1.6%

Gottschalks Inc. announced same store sales for the month of December 2002 decreased by 1.6% from the prior year. Total sales for December were $128.7 million, a 3.3% decrease…

Urban Outfitters Sees December Comps Off 1%

Urban Outfitters, Inc. announced comparable store sales were up 1.5% for the two-month Christmas selling season. Urban Retail was up 4% and Anthropologie Retail was down 2%. Comparable store sales for the calendar month of December decreased by 1%, with U

Pac Sun December Comps Jump 16.1%

Pacific Sunwear reported that total sales for the five weeks of December of fiscal 2002 were $152.9 million, an increase of 28.7%. Company same-store sales increased 16.1% for the comparable five-week period ended Jan. 4, 2003, with PacSun same-store sal

Brown Shoe Adds Three Senior Vice Presidents

Shoe Company, Inc. announced the promotion of Scott Cooper to SVP-Marketing for the corporation and the additions of Timothy R. Heard as SVP-Brown Shoe International and Paul M. Malutinok as SVP-Strategic Planning…

TJX December Same-Store Sales Up 1%

The TJX Companies, Inc. reported December 2002 sales rose 10% to $1.602 bn. Consolidated comparable store sales for the five-week period ended January 4, 2003 were up 1% over last year's 10% increase…

Famous Footwear Dec Comps Off 0.9%

Brown Shoe Company, Inc. announced retail sales at Famous Footwear increased 2.5% to $109.5 million compared to $106.8 million for the same period last year. Same-store sales declined slightly by 0.9%.

Ross Stores Dec Comps Increase 6%

Ross Stores, Inc. reported sales of $452 million for the five weeks ended January 4, 2003, an 18% increase above the $384 million in sales for the five weeks ended January 5, 2002. Comparable store sales for the same period increased 6% on top of a 9% inc

Saks Inc. December Comps Decrease 2.1%

Retailer Saks Incorporated announced that comparable store sales for the five weeks ended January 4, 2003 decreased 2.1% on a total company basis. By segment, comparable store sales decreased 1.6% for SDSG and decreased 3.0% for SFAE for the month…

Sears December Comps Decrease 4.6%

Sears, Roebuck and Co. announced total domestic store revenues for the five weeks ended January 4, 2003 were $4.1 bn, a 2.6% decrease compared with the five weeks ended January 5, 2002. Comparable domestic store revenues decreased 4.6%…

Payless ShoeSource Dec Same-Store Sales Decrease 0.7%

Payless ShoeSource, Inc. reported that same-store sales decreased 0.7% during the December reporting period, the five weeks ended January 4, 2003. Company sales totaled $292.0 million, a 1.4% increase from $287.9 million during December 2001…

Elder-Beerman December Comps Dip 1.4%

Comparable store sales for The Elder-Beerman Stores Corp. decreased 1.6% for the five weeks ending January 4, 2003. Total store sales were $117.3 million for the five weeks, a decrease of 1.4% versus the same period last year…

Dillard’s December Comps Decrease 4%

Dillard's, Inc. announced that sales for the five weeks ended January 4, 2003 were $1,305.3 million compared to sales for the five weeks ended January 5, 2002 of $1,368.4 million. Total sales decreased 5% for the five-week period. Sales in comparabl