July 2010 American Apparel Retail Newsletter

Recently released by the US Bureau of Statistics US retail The first data showed that the overall retail sales in the US grew by 0.4% in July 2010, an increase of 5.5% over the same period last year, the first increase in three months, but little increase. It was mainly boosted by the increase in retail sales of cars and gasoline, but many other categories. commodity Retail sales fell.

Apparel retailing is down. In July 2010, sales of clothing and clothing stores in the United States amounted to $17 billion 990 million, down 0.7%, up 3.8% from the same period last year. The total store sales amount was $50 billion 260 million, a decrease of 0.2%, an increase of 2.4% over the same period. The sales volume of department stores was 15 billion 410 million US dollars, down 1%, down 0.8% from the same period last year.

From June 2010 Clothing industry The ratio of inventory sales shows that the increase has slowed down or decreased. The inventory sales ratio of clothing and accessories stores increased from 2.32 in May 2010 to 2.33. The inventory sales ratio of the general store was 1.43 last month, of which the stock sales ratio of department stores dropped to 2.02 from 2.05 in May.