Urban Outfitters Reports Q4 Sales
PHILADELPHIA, PA, February 9, 2016 – Urban Outfitters, Inc. (NASDAQ:URBN), a leading lifestyle specialty retail company operating under the Anthropologie, Bhldn, Free People, Terrain and Urban Outfitters brands, today announced net sales for the quarter and year ended January 31, 2016.
Total Company net sales for the fourth quarter of fiscal 2016 were flat at $1.01 billion compared to the same quarter last year. Comparable Retail segment net sales, which include our comparable direct-to-consumer channel, decreased 2%. Comparable Retail segment net sales increased 2% at Free People and decreased 2% at the Anthropologie Group and 3% at Urban Outfitters.
Wholesale segment net sales increased 29% partially due to delayed shipments from the third quarter carrying over into the fourth quarter.
For the year ended January 31, 2016, total Company net sales increased to $3.4 billion or 4% over the prior year. Comparable Retail segment net sales increased 2%. Wholesale segment net sales increased 15%.
“Our January sales results mirrored the holiday period with direct-to-consumer results continuing to outpace store performance on a ‘comp’ basis,” said Richard A. Hayne, Chief Executive Officer. “The brands managed their inventories well which should allow for a smooth transition to the spring season,” finished Mr. Hayne.
During the year ended January 31, 2016, the Company opened a total of 31 new stores including: 14 Anthropologie Group stores, 13 Free People stores, and 4 Urban Outfitters stores, and closed 2 Urban Outfitters stores, 2 Anthropologie Group stores and 1 Free People store.
Urban Outfitters, Inc. is an innovative specialty retail company which offers a variety of lifestyle merchandise to highly defined customer niches through 240 Urban Outfitters stores in the United States, Canada, and Europe, catalogs and websites; 218 Anthropologie Group stores in the United States, Canada and Europe, catalogs and websites; 114 Free People stores in the United States and Canada, catalogs and websites; and Free People wholesale, which sells its product to approximately 1,800 specialty stores and select department stores worldwide, as of January 31, 2016.
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