{"id":292,"date":"2011-10-26T14:05:00","date_gmt":"2011-10-26T18:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newsroom.chainstoreguide.com\/2011\/10\/apparel-companies-to-watch-a-follow-up-report\/"},"modified":"2011-10-26T14:05:00","modified_gmt":"2011-10-26T18:05:00","slug":"apparel-companies-to-watch-a-follow-up-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/2011\/10\/apparel-companies-to-watch-a-follow-up-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Apparel Companies to Watch: A Follow-Up Report"},"content":{"rendered":"
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It\u2019s exciting to be able to predict the future and be right. Three years ago, I selected five Companies<\/span><\/div>\n

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to Watch in the apparel industry. I based my decision on their potential to grow in sales, store count<\/span><\/div>\n

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and their forward innovative thinking.<\/div>\n
What I didn\u2019t predict was the pending recession that eventually struck the country and brought the<\/div>\n
economy to a standstill. Despite this hurdle however, the five chains identified continued to do remarkably\u00a0well.<\/div>\n
As an editor for Chain Store Guide I am able to capture data on an ongoing basis and<\/div>\n
report on company\u2019s performance over prior years. Below, are the five companies selected as well as<\/div>\n
a look at their fast pace growth.<\/div>\n
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These companies have something in common; they found their niche and stuck with it. Here is an<\/div>\n
updated look at their past few years.<\/div>\n
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Forever 21 is a chain of clothing retailers throughout the United States, Canada, and seventeen other<\/div>\n
countries offering fashion and accessories for young women and men. Most of the retailer\u2019s apparel<\/div>\n
is private label and is made in Southern California. The chain, originally known as Fashion 21, was<\/div>\n
founded in Los Angeles, California in 1984. The first store was only 900 square feet. Fashion 21<\/div>\n
eventually expanded at the rate of a new store every six months and soon changed the Fashion 21<\/div>\n
brand name to Forever 21.<\/div>\n
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Company to Watch: Forever 21 Inc.<\/b><\/div>\n
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In 2005, Forever 21 was operating 355 locations nationwide with the trade names Forever 21, Forever<\/div>\n
XXI, For Love 21, and Gadzooks. In 2008, most of Forever 21\u2019s 404 U.S. stores were between<\/div>\n
10,000 to 20,000 square feet and are located in malls. Over the past few years, the chain has opened<\/div>\n
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some larger stores, 90,000 square feet units, making it a potential anchor in shopping malls. Read More..<\/a><\/div>\n
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Natasha Perry, Research Editor<\/b><\/span>
Natasha has held several management positions in the apparel industry.<\/span>
She received her bachelor\u2019s degree in Marketing Management<\/span>
from FL Southern College. Please contact her<\/a> if you have questions or<\/span>
comments.<\/span><\/div>\n

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It\u2019s exciting to be able to predict the future and be right. Three years ago, I selected five Companies to Watch in the apparel industry. I based my decision on their potential to grow in sales, store count and their forward innovative thinking. What I didn\u2019t predict was the pending recession that eventually struck the… Continue reading Apparel Companies to Watch: A Follow-Up Report<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"post-template-no-sidebar.php","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[6,5],"class_list":["post-292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apparel-department","tag-csg-old","tag-insight","entry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=292"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}