Next (NXT LN, SELL, T/P 3700p) - Post Results: Hard Work
We look at Directory/Online relative under-performance in the UK online clothing market and consider the implications for future recruitment behaviour. Next continues to run this business to maximise returns from existing customers. With its Retail business going backwards rapidly and an already-high EBIT margin in ND/NO Next needs to change its behaviour in terms of growing its sales base more rapidly online in our opinion. We are not sure this will happen. We retain our sell rating.Next Group is a retailer engaged in providing clothing, footwear, accessories and home products. Co. is primarily comprised of the following segments: NEXT Retail, which sells clothing, footwear, accessories and/or home products; NEXT Directory, an online and catalogue shopping business; NEXT International Retail, with around 200 mainly franchised stores across the world at Jan 28 2017; NEXT Sourcing, which designs and sources NEXT branded products; and Lipsy, which designs and sells Lipsy and other branded fashion products. As of Jan 28 2017, Co.'s NEXT Retail segment had a chain of around 540 stores in the U.K. and Eire.
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The company began trading in 2011 with a team of highly experienced market professionals and the goal of building a leading capital markets business in an entrepreneurial environment.
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