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Opinion on  Urban Outfitters Inc (URBN)     Sector: Services  >  Industry: Retail (Apparel)
Bullish on URBN ...

May 14, 2009 05:18 PM GMT
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Urban Outfitters, Inc., a lifestyle specialty retail company, operates specialty retail stores under the Urban Outfitters, Anthropologie, Free People, and Terrain brands. Its Urban Outfitters stores offer women?s and men?s fashion apparel, footwear, gifts, and accessories, as well as a mix of apartment wares, such as rugs, pillows, shower curtains, books, candles, and novelties for young adults; and Anthropologie stores offers women?s casual apparel and accessories, and a range of gifts and decorative items, as well as home furnishings, including furniture, rugs, lighting products, antiques, table top items, beddings, and gifts for women. The company?s Free People retail stores primarily offer Free People branded merchandise, such as casual women?s apparel, accessories, and gifts targeted to young contemporary women; and Terrain retail stores provide lifestyle home and garden products combined with antiques, live plants, and flowers, as well as various landscape and design service solutions for men and women. It also designs, develops, and markets private label apparel lines of young women?s casual wear, such as tops, bottoms, sweaters, and dresses through approximately 1,800 department and specialty stores. The company also offers its products directly to the consumer through its e-commerce Web sites, including urbanoutfitters.com, anthropologie.com, freepeople.com, and urbanoutfitters.co.uk, as well as through its Urban Outfitters, Anthropologie, and Free People catalogs. It also operates a wholesale segment that sells and distributes apparel to specialty retailers under the Free People and Leifsdottir brands. As of January 31, 2009, the company operated 142 Urban Outfitters stores, 121 Anthropologie stores, 30 Free People stores, and 1 Terrain garden center in the United States, Canada, and Europe. Urban Outfitters, Inc. was founded in 1970 and is based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.


URBN:  This call was made on 05/14/09 @ $19.7
Rating:   Positive   $19.7 (05/14/09)
Gain/Loss:   +62.49% in 179 days
Allocation:   0.1% of portfolio


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