The primogenitor association for Fashion Bug and Lane Bryant recently announced it will tighten 240 stores this year.
Bensalem-based Charming Shoppes Inc., that owns Fashion Bug, Lane Bryant and Catherine’s Plus Size, did not contend that stores are closing. The association on Mar 24 announced skeleton to tighten 240 unprofitable stores – some-more than 120 Fashion Bugs. Locally, a association has 8 Fashion Bug stores, dual Lane Bryant, and dual Catherine Plus Size.
A association central could not be reached for comment.
Charming Shoppes operates 2,064 sell stores in 48 states. For a fourth quarter, that finished Jan. 29, a company’s sales increasing $36.8 million, or 6.8 percent, to $576 million, compared with $539 million for a same 3 months a year ago.
