Tonya joined MarketWatch from Moguldom Media, where she was business editor for MadameNoire, a website targeting African-American women with a range of content from personal finance to economics, politics, education and lifestyle and entertainment. It also maintains its focus on international expansion, which is a small but growing area for the business. JHVEPhoto / Shutterstock. Victoria's Secret is an American lingerie, clothing, and beauty retailer known for high visibility marketing and branding starting with a popular catalog and followed by an annual fashion show with supermodels dubbed Angels. “We think there will be more store rationalization over the next several years as well,” Burgdoerfer said, according to a FactSet transcript.“We are encouraged that Victoria’s Secret is using the environment to reassess its store strategy, as we have held the view that a smaller Victoria’s Secret footprint is a necessary step toward stabilizing the brand,” Cowen said. Victoria's Secret plans to close 53 stores in North America this year. Bath & Body Works sales in hand sanitizers and hand soaps were strong, the company said.Fashion retailer L Brands Inc. still plans to spin off Bath & Body Works, and as part of the preparation for its flagship Victoria’s Secret chain to be a standalone business, the company plans to close about 250 stores across the U.S. and Canada.MKM Partners says the company faces an array of challenges as it tries to separate the businesses, one of which is the fact that there has been no talk of a new strategy for Victoria’s Secret merchandise, which has fallen out of favor.Cowen analysts led by Oliver Chen also brought up the issue of which stores would be shuttered.“Although one of the largest brands in the history of time, Victoria’s Secret essentially loses money and we believe a smaller Victoria’s Secret could be a healthier Victoria’s Secret,” wrote BMO Capital Markets analysts led by Simeon Siegel.“When discussing the go-forward approach to Victoria’s Secret, management referenced a profit improvement plan, NOT a revenue improvement plan, an approach that we believe could drive meaningful value.”BMO recently upgraded L Brands shares to outperform with a $17 price target.Cowen rates L Brands stock market perform with a $17 price target.Tonya Garcia is a MarketWatch reporter covering retail and consumer-oriented companies.
Victoria's Secret plans to close 53 stores this year as more women desert the brand for lingerie startups and big retailers. She also worked at Mediabistro, and previously handled media relations for MSLGroup’s consumer practice.MKM rates L Brands stock neutral with an $11 fair value estimate.“[W]e see a pathway for a business that’s, say in the neighborhood of at $6 billion-ish business or a $5.5 billion business; one that mixes much more significantly to digital and one obviously, that’s substantially more profitable than the current or recent state of the business.”Victoria’s Secret sales for the first quarter were nearly halved, totaling $821.5 million compared with $1.51 billion the year before.North American stores closed on March 17 due to the coronavirus epidemic and Victoria’s Secret distribution centers were closed for six days starting March 19. The company's products are also available at hundreds of partner locations in more than 70 countries.Industry & Profession profiles include background, on the job, tips to entry, outlook and interviews with industry experts.Victoria's Secret was founded in 1977 by Roy and Gayle Raymond. Stores closing in 2020: 250. 83 Stores. L Brands LB, -0.15% shares are up 38.5% for the week. The first store was located in Palo Alto, California. “However, before COVID-19, 99% of stores were profitable on an after-tax basis, likely making closure decisions difficult until now.”In addition to store closures, Victoria’s Secret is reorganizing and decentralizing and executives are analyzing the international financials.Victoria’s Secret North America sales for the full-year ending Feb. 1, 2020 were $6.805 billion, down 8% from the previous year.
Victoria's Secret has been one of the best-known and most talked-about brands in the country — increasingly, not in ways that it might hope for. Victoria's Secret operates more than 1,100 locations in the US, as well as about 50 in Canada, some 35 in China (mostly Victoria's Secret Beauty and Accessories stores), and two dozen in Ireland and the UK. Same-store sales fell 7%.“We’ll be curious to hear about the profit profile of closing stores knowing that historically some of Victoria’s Secret’s best stores were in lower tier malls,” wrote Roxanne Meyer, managing director at MKM Partners.Bath & Body Works had 1,739 stores in the region, and sales for the first quarter totaled $712.7 million down from $870.7 million the year before. Victoria's Secret. It's no secret that this lingerie retailer has been having problems in recent years as many women have decided the chain isn't relevant anymore and isn't inclusive enough. The company has plans for 10 additional stores in China and a handful in the UK in 2018. Victoria's Secret entered countries such as Poland, Russia, and Turkey through partners in 2017 and has plans for an additional 25 partner-operated stores in 2018.Victoria's Secret operates more than 1,100 locations in the US, as well as about 50 in Canada, some 35 in China (mostly Victoria's Secret Beauty and Accessories stores), and two dozen in Ireland and the UK. Victoria’s Secret had a total of 1,091 stores in North America as of Feb. 1, 2020, including the Pink brand. Within five years the couple was able to sell what was then a chain of locations to The Limited for some $4 million. Victoria's Secret is the top performer among L Brands' retail businesses, with company-owned stores in North America generating about $7.4 billion in revenue in 2017, or nearly 60% of L Brands' total revenue.
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