Question-and-Answer Session
Operator
(Operator Instructions) Your first question comes from Robbie Ohmes – BAS-ML
Robbie Ohmes – BAS-ML
Can you for the December comps you gave can you give the breakout of footwear versus apparel for us and any other color on that would be terrific? If you could remind us of the upcoming Under Armour sneaker launch at the end of this month and how you feel you’re positioned to that and if that could be a benefit to your underlying comp trend?
You mentioned The North Face I was just curious on your Timberland business and also as you look to the quarter you just came through in the month of December were there anything that stood out that you felt you should have been a lot deeper in that might have helped you put up better same store sales?
Glenn Lyon
We don’t break out by segment but in terms of the footwear the comps in footwear were down 1% and the comps in apparel were down 22%, similar to the trends prior. With respect to Under Armour you know they’ve been a great partner to us almost from the beginning. The training launch was very successful for us and we had a good year or almost a year with that.
The running launch which comes in a couple of weeks, I think it’s the 31st of this month, is about twice the size of the launch that we had with training. It will represent a pretty significant part of our running assortment come the beginning of February. Especially at the beginning there are some opportunities to increment our running business by some double digit number in both men’s and women’s.
In terms of North Face and Timberland, North Face we continue to grow. I think about a year and a half ago Sam started with about 10 stores of product between apparel and footwear. We expanded to 25 stores. Now we’re building plans to be in excess of 100. We’re building some items with them and we’re very encouraged about our ability to create a differentiated product assortment with North Face and it’s a brand that we think has great opportunity for us.
Timberland has I think done some good work in the marketplace. Our average prices have gone up, limited store distribution and not a very big number for The Finish Line but certainly a more profitable number. Our guys continue to work with them on quite a bit of testing looking to some new products that are relevant for our core customer with Timberland.
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