{"id":883,"date":"2009-10-09T21:27:29","date_gmt":"2009-10-10T04:27:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.denimsandjeans.com\/latest-denim-reports\/denim-data-figures\/surprising-fall-in-levis-3rd-quarter-results-2009\/"},"modified":"2018-10-27T11:42:37","modified_gmt":"2018-10-27T06:12:37","slug":"surprising-fall-in-levis-3rd-quarter-results-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.denimsandjeans.com\/recovery\/latest-denim-reports\/denim-data-figures\/surprising-fall-in-levis-3rd-quarter-results-2009\/883","title":{"rendered":"Surprising Fall In Levi&rsquo;s 3rd Quarter Results -2009"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"thickbox\" href=\"https:\/\/www.denimsandjeans.com\/recovery\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/image11.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: inline; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; border: 0px;\" title=\"levis strauss denim jeans\" src=\"https:\/\/www.denimsandjeans.com\/recovery\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/image-thumb11.png\" alt=\"levis strauss denim jeans\" width=\"207\" height=\"244\" align=\"left\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a> Levi Strauss &amp; Co\u00c2\u00a0 announced its financial results for the third quarter ended August 30, 2009 and they were surprisingly poor.<\/p>\n<p>Both the turnover and net profit went down. Turnover was down 6% and net income was down 41%. This is surprising since denim has been the only\u00c2\u00a0 one segment in the textile sector which has been showing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.denimsandjeans.com\/recovery\/denim-brands\/denim-brands-international\/super-premium-denim-jeans-sales-fall-while-denim-rules\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">positive growth<\/a> in last one year. The\u00c2\u00a0 imports of denim is also continuously rising in US with over <a href=\"https:\/\/www.denimsandjeans.com\/recovery\/latest-denim-reports\/denim-data-figures\/63-rise-in-womens-jeans-imports-in-usa-during-jan-june-2009\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">6% rise in imports of Women\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s denim<\/a> in the first 6 months of this year.<\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #ff8000;\">Levi\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Financial Results 3rd quarter 2009<\/span><\/h3>\n<table border=\"2\" width=\"400\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"2\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"100\"><strong>Particulars<\/strong><\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"100\"><strong>Quarter\u00c2\u00a0 ending August 30, 2009<\/strong><\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"100\"><strong>Quarter ending August 30, 2008<\/strong><\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"100\"><strong>% Decrease<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"100\"><strong>Net Revenues<\/strong><\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"100\">$1.040 billion<\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"100\">$1.111 billion<\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"100\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">-6 %<\/span><\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"100\"><strong>Net Income<\/strong><\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"100\">$41 million<\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"100\">$69 million<\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"100\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">-41%<\/span><\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The company\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s says that its reflected the challenging global economy and the adverse effect of currency exchange rates compared to the prior year.At constant currency, the results change a bit, but still show the same trend .<\/p>\n<p>The sales of the company region wise can also be seen below for this quarter. Both the Americas and European region have shown a fall in sales, and <strong>only the Asia Pacific region has shown an increase in sales .<\/strong><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #ff8000;\">Region wise sales of Levi\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s products 3rd quarter 2008 &amp;2009<\/span><\/h3>\n<table border=\"2\" width=\"400\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"2\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"100\"><strong>Region<\/strong><\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"100\"><strong>August 30,2009<\/strong><\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"100\"><strong>August 30,<br \/>\n2008<\/strong><\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"100\"><strong>% Change<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"100\"><strong>Americas<\/strong><\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"100\">$616 million<\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"100\">$649 million<\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"100\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">-5% (-3% <span style=\"color: #000000;\">at constant currency<\/span>)<\/span><\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"100\"><strong>Europe<\/strong><\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"100\">$266 million<\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"100\">$306 million<\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"100\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">-13% (-2% <span style=\"color: #000000;\">at constant currency<\/span>)<\/span><\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"100\"><strong>Asia Pacific<\/strong><\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"100\">$158 million<\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"100\">$156 million<\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"100\"><strong><span style=\"color: #008000;\">+2% (+4% <span style=\"color: #000000;\">at constant currency<\/span>)<\/span><\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Is Levi\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not yet able to fully adapt itself to the changing denim environment like some other companies . Does it need to do something more\u00c2\u00a0 in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.denimsandjeans.com\/recovery\/denim-brands\/denim-collections-international\/70-gap-1969-premium-denim-jeans-launched\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Premium denim segment like Gap<\/a> ?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Levi Strauss &amp; Co\u00c2\u00a0 announced its financial results for the third quarter ended August 30, 2009 and they were surprisingly poor. Both the turnover and net profit went down. Turnover was down 6% and net income was down 41%. This is surprising since denim has been the only\u00c2\u00a0 one segment in the textile sector which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[123,344],"class_list":["post-883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-denim-data-figures","tag-denim-results","tag-levis-denim"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.denimsandjeans.com\/recovery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/883","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.denimsandjeans.com\/recovery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.denimsandjeans.com\/recovery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.denimsandjeans.com\/recovery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.denimsandjeans.com\/recovery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=883"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.denimsandjeans.com\/recovery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/883\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.denimsandjeans.com\/recovery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.denimsandjeans.com\/recovery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.denimsandjeans.com\/recovery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}