Flowers weren’t the only thing in bloom last month. Several clothing catalogers reported sales up from last year for May.
Total company sales for Talbots in May increased 2% to $115.9 million, compared to $114.1 million for the same four-week period in 2002. Year-to-date sales for the seventeen weeks ended May 31 increased 1% to $510.9 million from $505.4 million in the previous year’s period.
Arnold B. Zetcher, chairman, president and CEO, noted in a statement that a “best customer” marketing initiative helped drive store traffic in the spring. Talbots expects to mail 48 million catalogs in 2003.
Combined catalog and Internet sales rose 15.9% in May, compared to the previous year’s period, for Jos. A. Bank Clothiers. Total sales for the month increased 17.6% to a record $21.4 million, compared with $18.2 million in May 2002.
Total sales for the men’s clothing cataloger and retailer for the four months ended May 31, 2003 increased 13.1% to $83.7 million, compared with $74.0 million in the comparable period in 2002. Catalog and Internet sales increased 15.8% in the period.
Abercrombie & Fitch posted net sales of $93.1 million for May 2003, a 9% increase over last May’s sales of $85.2 million. Year-to-date, the company reported a net sales increase of 11% to $439.8 million from $398.0 million last year.
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