Pretty Green Christmas sales rise 16.5 percent

Menswear retailer Pretty Green has said that its total sales for the six weeks to December 31, 2015 increased 16.5 percent or 15 percent on a like-for-like basis.

Commenting on the trading update, Richard Ralph, Pretty Green CEO, said, “We are delighted with the strong trading over the Christmas period and Q1 which we believe is a reflection of our investment in further developing the awareness of Pretty Green in the UK and internationally. Growth was recorded across all our channels to market, but we saw a particularly strong performance from e-commerce through both *prettygreen.com * and our pure play online wholesale customers.”

International sales increased by 24 percent and ecommerce sales rose by 27 percent. Cumulative net sales for the three months to December 31, 2015 were up 14 percent or 12 percent on a like-for-like basis.