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The Buckle’s May Comps Climb 9 Percent

The Buckle, Inc. today that comparable store net sales, for stores open at least one year, for the four-week period ended May 28, 2011 increased 8.8 percent versus the year-ago month…

Costco’s May Comps Up 17%

Costco Wholesale Corporation reported net sales of $7.14 billion for the month of May, the four weeks ended May 29, 2011, an increase of 17 percent from $6.09 billion during the similar period last year. Comparable stores sales in the United States, inclu

Study: Sporting Goods Prices Heading Up

More than 90 percent of sporting-goods manufacturers, including athletic footwear and apparel, paid higher input costs in the first quarter, and 41 percent of those firms increased wholesale prices, according to a quarterly survey of private, independent

Quiksilver Posts Steep Q2 Loss on Asia Pacific Charges

Quiksilver, Inc. reported revenues inched up 2.1 percent in the second quarter, to $478.1 million, but lost $83.3 million due largely to a major goodwill impairment charge and valuation allowances related to its Asia Pacific business. Pro-forma Adjusted E

Jones Group to Acquire Kurt Geiger

The Jones Group, the parent of Nine West, has acquired Kurt Geiger, Europe's largest luxury shoe retailer from Graphite Capital, a United Kingdom mid-market private equity firm, for approximately $350 million in cash, inclusive of debt acquired…

Sigg Switzerland USA Attributes Bankruptcy to BPA Issue

Sigg Switzerland USA Inc. would sell all its assets to its Canadian sister company under a court-supervised auction aimed at raising money to pay back some non-secured creditor claims, according to documents the company filed as part of its Chapter 11 ban