In 2007, Urban Outfitters moved their corporate headquarters from Rittenhouse Square in Philadelphia to a decommissioned Navy Yard south of the city proper. Part of the interview with Anthropologie’s Executive Creative Director touched on the campus, which houses Urban Outfitters, Free People, Anthropologie, the administrative team and (from the sound of it) a few unrelated businesses. The interview also linked…
Though same-store sales at Anthropologie fell by 13%, Urban Outfitters beat Wall St. expectations by a penny and sent their stock up after last week’s quarterly investor call. From Reuters: The apparel, accessories and home goods retailer, which hasseen sales fall even after offering huge discounts, said its“business is well positioned to show improvement over the nextseveral quarters.” “The environment…
Zagat has just released their 2009/10 NYC Shopping Guide (highly recommended for visitors to this great city!) and Anthropologie got itself some love. Anthro was named “Top Fashion Store.” And even in this economy it was interesting to see that 24% of survey respondants said they were willing to spend more on “high quality items that last,” according to Zagat’s…
Well there’s good news and there’s bad news. The good news is I really think we are due for a promo code soon from Anthropologie. The bad news is that the reason why is that sales continue to decline. From Business Week:Shares of Urban Outfitters Inc. fell on Wednesday, after the apparel retailer said in a regulatory filing that sales…
photo from WWDForever 21 top, Travota bottom Depending on which side of the fashion food chain you fall on Forever 21 is either awesome for copying designer fashion at a sliver of the price or horrible for it. Now a court case by Trovata might endanger their ability to “flatter” more expensive labels. From Racked:The lawsuit is going to trial,…
Ugh, bad news. According to mediabuyerplanner.com, Anthropologie plans to cut its catalogue circulation by about 14% in fiscal 2010. I know that some Anthro fans have a hard enough time getting the catalogues regularly as it is so this can’t be good news. The article states that Anthropologie will cut the circulation from 21.5 million to 18.4 million copies distributed.…
Photo by Henry Marc Perez The New York Times jobs section has been running vignettes on bosses, managers and employees. Today one of the featurettes was on Glen Senk, the CEO of Urban Outfitters. From the article:My first job after graduating was with Bloomingdale’s. I had nine great years there, starting as an assistant buyer and finishing as senior vice…
