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retailer Saks will soon start its doors in Canada with plans to launch as many as seven stores north of the boundary, after being snatched upward Monday by Hudson's Nike Free 5.0 Australia Bay Denver. for US$2.9 billion. real-estate, one analyst said the deal will give HBC (TSX:HBC) greater fashion standing.
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For some Canadian shoppers, news of the upscale chain's foray into Canada, was delayed.
Adrian Salamunovic, a business owner who lives in Ottawa, reported he's been shopping from Saks for about seven years.
Salamunovic, Thirty eight, was thrilled to hear that will Saks will be opening up to 20 of its Saks Off Fifth stores in Canada, which advertise designer brands at discount rates.
Salamunovic said he often appointments these stores when he's staying at his second home in Los Angeles to pick up brands including Vince, John Varvatos and the Made Created line by Levis all of which he says are difficult to find in Nova scotia.
"Especially in Ottawa, there's limited variety of fashion brands for men,Inches he said.
"The stuff they have in the shops is always very well selected. It is expensive. line for her pals.
"I think the people there are type of snooty, but at the same time they offer quite a few exclusive lines," mentioned the 34 year old Toronto resident.
"We live in a world class metropolis, and we deserve some of these outstanding brands here."
Richard Baker, HBC's chairman and ceo, didn't provide a timeline with the launch.
"We're going Buy Louis Vuitton Online to move you'd like we can," Baker informed analysts during a conference call in Monday. Northeast.
Together, a combined company will make up more than 32 million square footage of retail space in addition to rake in about C$7.2 thousand of sales annually.
HBC said it may transform some of its Hudson's Bay stores into Saks regions, open new Saks stores inside existing buildings or, in some cases, build new stores on the ground up.
The Toronto based mostly retailer is also eyeing the potential of starting a real estate investment trust.
"The combination of Saks and HBC real estate creates a strong unmatched, highly valuable North American retail real estate portfolio, which has a coast to coast footprint serving three strong banners," Baker said.
Paul Michael Kors Online Stockists Swinand, an Christian Louboutin Shoes Sydney analyst with Morningstar within Chicago, said the prime real estate investment portfolio was likely one of the primary draws for HBC.
"There's no way they could have accessed these property assets at any other cost, or in any other way," said Swinand.
"These are assets within locations where you couldn't get that size a store otherwise."
Having said that, Swinand noted it will be a challenge pertaining to HBC to improve Saks' operating margin, that is in the low single digits.
"They have high sales per sq . ft ., but their profitability has not been that Buy Nike Free Online great," he said.
Baker claimed HBC will keep the stores under distinct banners, and plans on remodeling the Saks stores and working with more vendors to make the chain "as lavish as possible."
