USA - Notes from Andy Schofield
Business wasn’t booming last week as most shoppers across the US were interested in one thing – Back to School! The good news is that we should start to see better numbers across the board now as we settle in to the start of the suit season. It’s already September 1st (Saturday) which means only 16 more weeks until the Christmas Holidays! It sounds a long way off, but in terms of Made to Measure – it isn’t that long…. Be sure to remind your customers!!
Last week Made to Measure struggled with only 40% of target, that’s only $9700 in sales total for the USA. The bright note here is that it was 109% of Last Year, so you can see how bad it was in 2006 this same week.
Ready Made didn’t fair any better with only 75% against target and 82% of Last Year – the total sales for last week were only $42,000 so we have a lot to make up over the next couple of months guys.
Keep going, it’s a struggle but I know if we keep pushing every sale we can, we’ll come through the other side.
Week 19 Star Performers
FORT BRAGG –Top branch yet again! Adelle is using all of her knowledge and expertise to make every single sale count. On Thursday Adelle participated in a local Job Fair for the troops on Fort Bragg at the Officer’s club and promoted Made to Measure suits (A lot like a TAPS class). The visit paid off and I am sure Adelle will also be reaping the benefits next week too – See you in the top spot in week 22 Adelle!!
FORT MYER –Richard had a great week with almost $5000 in sales. $2600 of that was on Measures – Not bad to say the week started out slow – Well done Richard.
FORT DIX –Still hanging onto the top three spot and again getting her name in lights (This has to be a record of some sort!) Nicky managed 120% of target. With $2000 on both RM and MM Nicky showed that it is possible to have a “Four Grand” week even though it’s “Back to School” – Good job Nicky.
Well done to all of you that made target this week – it was a tough one.
Welcome Back!
I would like to welcome back Andrew Meek to the company. Andrew worked for us in 2005 at Nellis AFB then went onto Savile Row, working at the Minneapolis store. That store closed last year and Drew went his own way for a while, but I am pleased to say that we managed to pull him back into the fold and he will be working out of McChord AFB and also doing West Coast Relief operations when needed. Currently Drew is on Relief for Dominic at Travis AFB.
Welcome back Drew!
Good Weeks Trading Everyone... Andy.
