Question-and-Answer Session
Operator
Thank you. (Operator Instructions). Your first question is coming from Margaret Mager with Goldman Sachs.
Margaret Mager - Goldman Sachs
Hi, good afternoon and congratulations on a great start to the New Year. Can you just talk about a little bit about what's going on with the business in terms of what's driving your better than expected revenue growth, which is then leading to leveraging better than expected operating margin. So if you could talk a little bit about some of the drivers in the business, men's, women's or, any further color on categories that would be great. Thank you.
Mickey Drexler
Well, this is kind of an overwriting issue for us is and in terms of getting down to specifics of give that as much as its appropriate. But there is balance growth between men's and women's and accessories in the first quarter. I think in addition to that I did say we really plan conservatively and what we found this quarter is that the customers exceeded our own expectations obviously but one of the things we keep doing day-in and day-out and it's hard to measure the impact of continuing to invest in design, quality, fabrication and into our improved customer service programs, which customer service ends up kind of being a lot of apple-pie and motherhood.
But in our case we put a new credit card program into effect, which is very dramatically improving our sales, in our credit card business. I said we have no layers of management you can find my name along with Jeff's and a few others on our credit card email response. So if someone has a complaint and they are not satisfied I get the email or Jeff or Lisa gets it or Jill and we have a turnaround time that's maximum 24 hours. In terms of what's selling, we are looking at the marketplace as our base business where it’s been and will continue to be plus what we consider the drive to quality, style and design in America and the marketplace.
I can’t speak beyond that but as we continue to reinforce that, as we continue to see very high priced designer goods in the marketplace, where one actually in times does need a mortgage to shop. We feel that's a very important opportunity, two things one it gives us an umbrella over the balance of our business and number two overall it's a small amount of our business but it gets a bit larger over the year. It also has a much larger impact on the perception of our obsession with quality and design in the company.
