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The American company Abercrombie & Fitch announced their developing plan on European and British market
The plan is expanding its market into Italy, France, German, Spain, Denmark and Sweden, and founded new business base in Britain. In the mean time, the company also announced that it has hired PBS Real Estate company and its executives Ms. Laura Pomerantz, serving as its consultant on the right of real estate issue in Europe and the United Kingdom. This real estate company will provide innovative solutions of commercial real estate for landlords and tenants. This time, they will be responsible for looking for good stores for A&F Company.Laura Pomerantz has helped the Abercrombie & Fitch open its flagship on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan and set up the RUEHL store on Bleecker Street in Manhattan.
Abercrombie & Fitch is American high-priced casual clothing brand designed for college students aged 18 to 22. The company total owned Abercrombie & Fitch, abercrombie, Hollister Co., and RUEHL No.925 four brands clothes. They are designed for consumers of different ages according to their preferences and economic capacities. The company also launched another brand it’s “Concept 5″ in the market in January 2008 .
The teenage clothing retailers think the European market has strong demand on Abercrombie & Fitch brand. The company which is located on the 7th Avenue flagship storein Burlington Gardens London can be confirmed the success of the first operating results in Europe. Mike Jeffries, the president and CEO of Abercrombie & Fitch, said that the corporation had estimated the European market for a long time, which showed that the market had a huge requirement for Abercrombie & Fitch. He believed that it was the best time for Abercrombie & Fitch Company activated its expansion in the European market and realized its international growth. But in fact,many retailers which set headquarters in USA found the run of European market is even harder than expected. There are numerous competitors in the European market, especially in Germany, there full of competition of Wal-Mart and Gap and other brands. In addition, the strategy for relying on for support is not mature, there is still a long and hard way to go in developing European market. However Abercrombie & Fitch is confident. One of the company’s stores’ recent sales profit is 2% higher than the analyst’s anticipation of the same store with a total sales of ＄293.2 million in that month It has grown 21% compared 243 million U.S. dollars last year, this year from January to June the sales reach to 1.25 billion dollars, it has grown 15% compared last year.
Abercrombie & Fitch Inc.has 182 stores with the same name and 409 Hollister Co. Stores and 17 RUEHL stores in the United States. It owns 3 Abercrombie & Fitch stores and 3 Hollister Co. stores in Canada, and 1 Abercrombie & Fitch flagship store in London.