Leading specialty retailer Abercrombie & Fitch Co reported net sales of $189.2 million for the four-week period ended October 29, 2005, a 41 percent increase over last year's October sales of $133.9 million. October comparable store sales increased 31 percent compared with the four-week period ended October 30, 2004.
Year-to-date, the Company reported a net sales increase of 37 percent to $1.823 billion from $1.334 billion last year. Comparable store sales increased 24 percent for the year-to-date period.
October 2005 Highlights - Total Company net sales increased 41 percent - Total Company comparable store sales increased 31 percent - Abercrombie & Fitch comparable store sales increased 20 percent - abercrombie comparable store sales increased 76 percent - Hollister Co. comparable store sales increased 34 percent
The Company will release its results for the third quarter on Tuesday, November 15, at 4:30 PM Eastern Time.
US based specialty retailer Abercrombie & Fitch operates 352 stores, 163 abercrombie stores, 289 Hollister Co. stores and 6 RUEHL stores at the end of fiscal September.