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commentary in the Q session. We'll follow our typical format. I'll provide some opening perspectives on the quarter and our framework for performance in the second half of 2010 overall and Andy will walk you through a detailed review of third quarter performance. I will then review the adjusted segments results and provide closing remarks.We are pleased with the results that we posted in this mornings press release. Third quarter by and large played out as we had described that it wouldn't back in August when we reported our second quarter earnings. Our business is showing operational traction in many key areas and we remain on track for ongoing system wide profit expansion.We are very pleased with the progress that we are making at Mexx Europe. We've seen several weeks with positive comps in both the retail stores and our e Commerce business and our wholesale accounts are indicating increases for the April May period. We are pleased with our performance in concessions in department stores with some important Bellwether locations reporting even stronger then our own comp trend and we are seeing strengthened women's products sell throughs that we haven't seen in five years.At Lucky brand the trend is also improved, we are no longer seeing the minus 20 to minus 30 comp store declines. The comps by major classification shows some triumphs, we are specially encouraged by excellent progress in both men's and women's fashion, where sell throughs in same store sales increases have been strong. Denim, overall in the market place is soft as we've heard from other retailers but Lucky brand is responding by managing price points, promotion and inventory levels.With both Mexx and Lucky brands we're seeing what happens when you take a business that is suffered a long term decline and radically changed it with brand appropriate product and marketing. You got immediate conversion of full price on some great items. Comp sales results begin flashing to positive and what I'll call a blinking pattern, traffic can remain sluggish but as the store widows and marketing campaign start to stimulate new interest this will begin to change.Traffic lags, conversion leads, you focus on the