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Introduction
Dress Barn has increased its focus on core category, women’s products. In the fiscal year 2007, the company discontinued the men’s category as it had been underperforming in comparison with women’s categories. Dress Barn expanded the women’s product line by introducing plus-sizes in women’s apparel.
Scope
Contains corporate strategy, value chain presence and SWOT Analysis
Provides detailed
business description, segment analysis, 5-year financial trends, key products and key competitors
Includes information on suppliers/ partners, shareholding structure and key employees with biographies
Highlights
Dress Barn has strong market presence in the US. The company operates through 1,428 stores spread across 48 states and the District of Columbia. This includes 821 Dressbarn stores and 607 maurices stores. Comparatively, its close competitor, Ann Taylor, a specialty retailer of women’s apparel, operates 869 stores.
The company has presence in three segments of the retail value chain: wholesale (procurement of stock), operations and distribution (warehousing and transportation), and sales (physical store operations and online sales). The company is not present in two other sections of the retail value chain: raw materials and manufacturing.
Dress barn plans to increase its market presence by opening new stores. By increasing the number of stores, the company plans to increase the square footage of dress barn stores by 3% and maurices by 9% in fiscal 2008. It plans to increase its total square footage by 3%–5% thereafter.
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