SGB Update

Retail Ventures total sales for the four weeks ended January 31, 2004, increased 3.9% to $122.9 million from $118.2 million for the four weeks ended February 1, 2003. The company's same store sales decreased 1.2% for the
four week period…

Kohl's sales for the four week period ended January 31, 2004 increased 14.5% over the four week period ended February 1, 2003. On a comparable store basis, sales
increased 0.3%…

Nordstrom reported preliminary sales of $355.3 million for the four-week period ending January 31, 2004, an increase of 13.5 percent compared to sales of $313.2 million for the four-week period ending February 1, 2003. Same-store
sales increased 8.7 perc

Stage Stores total sales increased 48.1% to $61.0 million from $41.2 million in the prior year. The Company noted that the sales growth during the month resulted primarily from the acquisition of Peebles Inc., as well as from the 28 net new stores that ha

Gottschalks January 2004 same store sales increased
8.6% from January 2003. Total sales for January increased 1.9% to $36.2 million from $35.5 million in the prior year. Fourth quarter fiscal 2003 same store sales increased 1.6%, while total sales decreas

Wal-Mart Stores net sales for the four-week period ending
January 30, 2004, of $18.400 billion, an increase of 14.3 percent over the $16.105 billion in the similar period in the prior year. Sales for the fifty-two week period were $256.026 billion, an in

Johnson Outdoors announced a Temporary Restraining Order had been issued by the Superior Court of Maine, barring a former employee from working for a major competitor. The TRO was issued on January 28th, and was upheld by the Court in a ruling yesterday

In an effort to build on the momentum gained in 2003, Boston-based Dunham announces that Bill Dodge will assume the role of Marketing Manager for the brand. In this new role, Dodge will be responsible for all aspects of the Dunham product development team

The Timberland Company reported fourth quarter net income of $39.5 million, or $1.10 per per diluted share, compared with net income of $27.1 million, 73 cents per per diluted share, in the year-ago quarter 2002. Fourth quarter revenue increased 16.4% to