BOO Brands cover 13 -45 years of age vs just 20 Somethings13 Jan 2021 09:38
BOO won’t be cautious on 20 somethings like ASOS
Don’t forget last results :
- Admit issues found in Leicester
- Have ability to drive positive change & stop issues reoccurring
- Ambition to be fashion e-commerce leader
- Big investment in UK textile manufacturing industry
- Not afraid to act quickly
- 70,000 styles of clothing now!
- UK contribution - 1.5B sales, 5,000 direct jobs, saving UK brands, 80m paid Corp Tax
- Soucing more in Asia & Europe
- Directors of Sustainability & Compliance team in place
- Compliance programme for suppliers & manufacturing sub-contractors through accredited 3rd-party
- Group terminated many relationships from audits
- Will publish a list of approved audited suppliers
- Rolling out compliance globally
- Reducing waste improvements going well
- Invested in technology for auditing & compliance
- New supplier portal & app
- State of the Art facility in Leicester for not just Boohoo to help model legal manufacturing & train new people with 250 new jobs. Community access & not for profit - awesome!
- Fewer suppliers but more volume
- Audit everyone in 12 months, publish list in 6 months
- Implementing ALL QC recommendations
- Enhancing BoD compliance oversight with new ESG board member - Awesome!
- Fantastic first Half Year for group with record sales & record profit
- Boohoo & Leicester will flourish together
- Margins wont suffer but preference is to use Leicester
- 4.5m dresses sold but only 0.3% are the £5 dress - most £15-£35 -12% margin on £5 dress as it helps marketing
- Not disposable fashion & ethically sourced
- Sales up 45% - strong demand in all geographies
- Gross Profit up 47%
- Net cash 344.9M
- UK 37% up, US 83% up (HUGE!!), Rest of Europe & RoW all growing
- Cashflow strong +147M
- PLT fully owned
- Oasis & Warehouse fully integrated
- Customer KPIs - more customers +4.4M with 34% increase in orders!
- Increasing Capex Burnley & Sheffield spend to achieve 3.6B sales!!!!! WOW!
- Guidance 28% to 32% growth for FY upgraded - nice!
- VERY COOL video on all their 9 brands!
- 36m followers on social media
- Lots of new celebrity influencers
- Brands cover 13 -45 years of age
- Karen Millen & Coast growing & brands extended
- Launched TV advertising this year
- Oasis & Warehouse targeting every & urban women
- Very strong platform to deliver change close to achieve 1.5B sales through 9 brands
- Strong financial position