Fashion Merchandising Management ** Fashion Institute of Technology

FM116 Fashion Business Practices Instructor M Osborne

Name: Victoria Scudder

Sales & Profit Project Part #1
Each student turns in their own typed or handwritten assignment
What were the sales performances for these 3 retail corporations? Please
pull these figures from Hoover’s Income statement through the FIT Library
website. The figures are quite confusing on each company’s actual Annual
Report (SEC filing 10-K.)

Macy’s Nordstrom Dillard’s

$ Net Sales in Fiscal 24,837 15,478 6,422.7

2018
$ Net Sales in Fiscal 25,778 14,757 6,418
2017
$ Difference between 941 721 4.7
the two years
Net Sales Increase 8% Decrease 7% Increase 4% Decrease
% or Decrease %
for Fiscal 2018
compared to Fiscal
2016
**Fill in this blank: All numbers are in millions (billions? millions? thousands?)

Company Percent of
Name Increase or
Decrease
Based on these percents, which Nordstrom 7% Increase
company had the best sales
performance in 2018?
Based on these percents, which Macy’s 8% Decrease
company had the worst sales
performance in 2018?