Mölndal, Sweden, 2016-Nov-09 — /EPR Retail News/ — Today (2016-11-08) KappAhl publishes its Annual Report for the fiscal year 2015/2016. Again this year, the fashion chain has chosen to combine the financial annual report and the sustainability report.
In brief the past year summes up as follows:
- A major change effort has taken shape and KappAhl’s earnings have gone up.
- The driving forces were developing KappAhl’s customer offer, strengthening the gross margin and continued cost control
- Success factors included a gradual clarification of the assortment as well as altered and active work on price and campaign strategies.
- The continued prioritized sustainability work included reinforcements by new routines and roles in the sustainability organization and by investing in education for the design and purchasing departments. The aim is to strengthen the sustainability efforts further in the design phase.
In the Annual Report CEO Danny Feltmann comments the past year with “It has been a year when we through major joint operations have reversed a negative trend. Together, we have increased sales and strengthened our operating margin. It is a good starting point as we tackle fiscal year 2016/2017.”
The Annual Report published today is the Swedish version. The English version will be published on 24 November. The Annual Report is produced in two parts. Part 1 describes the business including the sustainablity work and is available to download as well as to order printed copies of at www.kappahl.com/ir. Part 2 is available to download on www.kappahl.com/ir and includes the official Annual Report, the GRI Index, the materiality analysis and corporate governance report, etc.
KappAhl, founded in 1953 in Gothenburg, is one of the leading Nordic fashion chains with nearly 380 stores in Sweden, Norway, Finland and Poland as well as Shop Online. Our mission is to offer value-for-money fashion of our own design with wide appeal. About 38 per cent of the range has sustainable fashion labelling. In 2015/2016 sales were SEK 4.7 billion and the number of employees was about 4,000 in nine countries. KappAhl has been listed on Nasdaq Stockholm since 2006. More information is available at www.kappahl.com
For further information, please contact:
Charlotte Högberg
Head Corporate Communications
tel: 46 (0)70 471 56 31
email: charlotte.hogberg@kappahl.com
Source: KappAhl