Zumiez Inc. announced that the company’s total net sales increased 9.0 percent for the nine-week period ended January 1, 2022 compared to the nine-week period ended January 2, 2021. During the same period, comparable sales increased 6.0 percent. Total net sales compared to 2019 increased 6.6 percent for the nine-week period ended January 1, 2022 compared to the nine-week period ended January 4, 2020. Our stores were open approximately 97 percent of the available days during this period in 2021 compared to approximately 96 percent in the same period of 2020 and 100 percent in 2019 respectively.

Zumiez provided a business update in advance of its appearance at the ICR 2022 investor conference.

From a regional perspective, quarter-to-date North America net sales increased 5.1 percent. Other international net sales, which consists of Europe and Australia, increased 36.6 percent despite continued closures and challenges associated with the pandemic. Excluding the impact of foreign currency translation, North America net sales increased 5.0 percent and other international net sales increased 44.5 percent for the nine-week period compared to the prior year.

During the nine-week period, the Men’s category provided our largest comparable sales increase followed by Footwear, Accessories and Women’s. Hardgoods was our only negative comping category.

The company continues to expect year-over-year total net sales growth for the full fourth quarter to be below the quarter-to-date trends based upon the benefits of stimulus in January of the prior year and the ongoing impact of the COVID 19 pandemic. The company is also reiterating projected year-over-year net sales growth for the full-year fiscal 2021 to be just over 20 percent.

Rick Brooks, Chief Executive Officer of Zumiez, Inc., stated, “Our teams continue to perform very well under difficult retail conditions. Our 2021 holiday sales pattern resembled pre-pandemic seasons with volume focused around peak periods and a strong return to physical shopping providing our customers human-to-human experiences with our best-in-class sales teams. We are on track for record annual results and believe we have built a model that can continue to drive long-term shareholder value.”

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