Abercrombie and Fitch Fifth Avenue flagship store greeters/models. January 18 and 23, 2010.
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Tuesday, January 19, 2010
Tuesday, June 16, 2009
ABERCROMBIE and FITCH Flagship Store Fifth Avenue Store Greeters/Models
Some of the ABERCROMBIE and FITCH Flagship Store Fifth Avenue Store Greeters/Models.
Thursday, April 9, 2009
ABERCROMBIE & FITCH Flagship Store Greeters/Models, Fifth Avenue, New York City
Photo taken 3/7/09
Photo taken 4/5/09
Saturday, February 21, 2009
The ABERCROMBIE & FITCH Flagship Store Greeter and his Polaroid Photographer
As I have indicated in a previous post, photos of A & F greeters are the most viewed among my Flickr pictures. For a change, I made this image of last Sunday's greeter (well, maybe we should call him a model because he doesn't really greet people) with the polaroid girl that takes pictures of shoppers who wanted to pose with the model. The polaroid photos are handed out free to shoppers as souvenir. Whether or not these bare-chested models actually help boost sales is unclear. The flagship store is located at 720 Fifth Avenue.
Thursday, June 5, 2008
DIVERSITY at A and F: ABERCROMBIE & FITCH GREETER
Abercrombie & Fitch Co. is a clothing retailer marketing to young adults, teenagers and children. It employs over 22,000 employees, most of whom are college-age adults, in over 700 stores throughout the United States. According to afjustice.com, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California granted final approval to a settlement of the class action lawsuit Gonzalez v. Abercrombie & Fitch on April 14, 2005. The settlement requires A & F to pay $40 million dollars to Latino, African American, Asian American and female applicants and employees who charged the company with discrimination. The settlement also requires the company to institute a range of policies and programs to promote diversity among its workforce and to prevent discrimination based on race or gender.
The lawsuit alleged that the retail giant hires a disproportionately white sales force, favors white employees for the best positions, and discourages minorities from even applying for jobs. "The greeters and the people that worked in the in-season clothing, most of them white, if not all of them, were white," says one former employee. "The people that worked in the stock room, where nobody sees them, were mostly Asian-American, Filipino, Mexican, Latino."
In its Fifth Avenue flagship store, racially diverse employees are quite visible, including the greeter pictured above. The four-story, 36,000-square- foot retail store is located at 720 Fifth Avenue.
The lawsuit alleged that the retail giant hires a disproportionately white sales force, favors white employees for the best positions, and discourages minorities from even applying for jobs. "The greeters and the people that worked in the in-season clothing, most of them white, if not all of them, were white," says one former employee. "The people that worked in the stock room, where nobody sees them, were mostly Asian-American, Filipino, Mexican, Latino."
In its Fifth Avenue flagship store, racially diverse employees are quite visible, including the greeter pictured above. The four-story, 36,000-square- foot retail store is located at 720 Fifth Avenue.
Tuesday, November 27, 2007
CHRISTMAS COMES EARLY AT ABERCROMBIE & FITCH CO.
While numerous apparel retailers reported weak third-quarter sales, Abercrombie & Fitch Co recently reported a 15 % increase in quarterly profit, helped by strength in A & F chain of stores. Last Sunday, there was a long waiting line just to get in the A & F flagship store on Fifth Avenue.
From the New York Times:
Abercrombie said third-quarter sales rose 13 percent to $973.9 million. Same-store sales, a key retail gauge that measures sales at stores open at least a year, increased 1 percent.
Same-store sales rose 3 percent at both its namesake Abercrombie & Fitch chain and its Abercrombie children's chain but fell 1 percent at its Hollister chain and 7 percent at its RUEHL stores.
Price increases on its merchandise and lower losses of inventory theft or shoplifting helped offset higher markdowns compared with a year earlier.
The company said its RUEHL stores, which first opened in 2004 and are geared toward 22- to 30-year-olds, are not performing as well as it would like, but it is still "very bullish" on the brand.
The retailer said its brands "are not intended to appeal to everyone," which limits expansion potential, but it is looking at international markets to bolster its growth.
"While we are less than halfway to full potential from a store expansion standpoint domestically, we are increasing focus on expanding the A&F and Hollister brands on an international basis," Kramer said.
He said the company is pursuing projects that have the highest returns on capital and the lowest risk.
Abercrombie will open a Tokyo flagship store in late 2009, its first store in Asia.
The retailer also plans to introduce a new concept, what it is calling a "fifth concept," in January with the opening of four stores.
For the second half of its fiscal year, it forecast earnings per share of $3.63 to $3.67. It said the low end of the outlook is based on flat same-store sales for the fourth quarter.
For its current fiscal year, it expects to increase its gross square-footage roughly 10 percent, mainly through the addition of six new Abercrombie & Fitch stores, 25 new Abercrombie stores, 58 new Hollister Co stores, seven new RUEHL stores, and four stores of its new concept.
(Reporting by Nicole Maestri; Editing by Gerald E. McCormick and John Wallace)
From the New York Times:
Abercrombie said third-quarter sales rose 13 percent to $973.9 million. Same-store sales, a key retail gauge that measures sales at stores open at least a year, increased 1 percent.
Same-store sales rose 3 percent at both its namesake Abercrombie & Fitch chain and its Abercrombie children's chain but fell 1 percent at its Hollister chain and 7 percent at its RUEHL stores.
Price increases on its merchandise and lower losses of inventory theft or shoplifting helped offset higher markdowns compared with a year earlier.
The company said its RUEHL stores, which first opened in 2004 and are geared toward 22- to 30-year-olds, are not performing as well as it would like, but it is still "very bullish" on the brand.
The retailer said its brands "are not intended to appeal to everyone," which limits expansion potential, but it is looking at international markets to bolster its growth.
"While we are less than halfway to full potential from a store expansion standpoint domestically, we are increasing focus on expanding the A&F and Hollister brands on an international basis," Kramer said.
He said the company is pursuing projects that have the highest returns on capital and the lowest risk.
Abercrombie will open a Tokyo flagship store in late 2009, its first store in Asia.
The retailer also plans to introduce a new concept, what it is calling a "fifth concept," in January with the opening of four stores.
For the second half of its fiscal year, it forecast earnings per share of $3.63 to $3.67. It said the low end of the outlook is based on flat same-store sales for the fourth quarter.
For its current fiscal year, it expects to increase its gross square-footage roughly 10 percent, mainly through the addition of six new Abercrombie & Fitch stores, 25 new Abercrombie stores, 58 new Hollister Co stores, seven new RUEHL stores, and four stores of its new concept.
(Reporting by Nicole Maestri; Editing by Gerald E. McCormick and John Wallace)
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