B&BW ’08 goals
This article was originally published in The Rose Sheet
Executive Summary
Bath & Body Works will focus on a few "key" priorities this year, including reinvigorating the brand, creating more brand consistency, and stemming current negative sales trend due to traffic decline in retail locations, B&BW CEO Diane Neal says during Limited Brands year-end (ended Feb. 2) earnings presentation Feb. 28. Company is focused on growing key brands C.O. Bigelow, True Blue Spa, aromatherapy and fragrant body care, she says. Limited Brands net sales for the year fell 5% to $10.13 bil. due to "transformational changes" that occurred through the year, while net income grew 6.2% to $718 mil. Limited Brands says disappointing results in 2007 "better position" the firm to prepare for core brand growth in 2008. In light of the retail environment, the number of projects planned for 2008 are reduced by 25%, with the goal of reducing planned capital expenditures of about $85 mil...
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