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Segment Reporting
3 Months Ended
Apr. 30, 2019
Segment Reporting [Abstract]  
Segment Reporting

13. Segment Reporting

The Company offers lifestyle-oriented general merchandise and consumer products and services through a portfolio of global consumer brands. The Company has three reportable segments – “Retail,” “Wholesale” and “Subscription.” The Company’s Retail segment consists of the “Anthropologie,” “Bhldn,” “Free People,” “Terrain” and “Urban Outfitters” brands and the Food and Beverage division. The Anthropologie, Bhldn and Terrain brands make up the “Anthropologie Group.” As of April 30, 2019, there were 245 Urban Outfitters stores, 228 Anthropologie Group stores, 136 Free People stores, 12 restaurants under the Food and Beverage division, four Urban Outfitters franchisee-owned stores, one Anthropologie Group franchisee-owned store and one Free People franchisee-owned store. Each of Urban Outfitters, the Anthropologie Group and Free People, including their Company-owned and franchisee-owned stores and digital channels, and the restaurants operated under the Company’s Food and Beverage division, are considered an operating segment. Net sales from the Retail segment accounted for approximately 90.5% and 90.6% of total consolidated net sales for the three months ended April 30, 2019 and 2018, respectively. The remaining net sales are derived from the Company’s Wholesale segment which consists of the Free People, Anthropologie and Urban Outfitters brands that sell through approximately 2,200 department and specialty stores worldwide, digital businesses and the Company’s Retail segment. The Wholesale segment primarily designs, develops and markets young women’s contemporary casual apparel, intimates, FP Movement activewear and shoes under the Free People brand, home goods including gifts, tabletop and textiles under the Anthropologie brand and the BDG apparel collection under the Urban Outfitters brand. The Urban Outfitters wholesale division was established in the third quarter of fiscal 2019. The Subscription segment consists of the “Nuuly” brand and is a monthly women’s apparel subscription rental service that is planned to launch in the summer of 2019.

The Company has aggregated its brands into the Retail segment based upon their shared management, customer base and economic characteristics. Reporting in this format provides management with the financial information necessary to evaluate the success of the segments and the overall business. The Company evaluates the performance of the segments based on the net sales and pre-tax income from operations (excluding intercompany charges) of the segment. Corporate expenses include expenses incurred and directed by the corporate office that are not allocated to segments. The principal identifiable assets for each reporting segment are inventory and property and equipment.

Other assets are comprised primarily of general corporate assets, which principally consist of cash and cash equivalents, marketable securities, deferred taxes and prepaid expenses, and are typically not allocated to the Company’s segments. The Company accounts for intersegment sales and transfers as if the sales and transfers were made to third parties making similar volume purchases.

The Company’s omni-channel strategy enhances its customers’ brand experience by providing a seamless approach to the customer shopping experience. All available Company-owned shopping channels are fully integrated, including stores, websites, mobile applications, catalogs and customer contact centers. The Company’s investments in areas such as marketing campaigns and technology advancements are designed to generate demand for the omni-channel and not the separate store or digital channels. Store sales are primarily fulfilled from that store’s inventory but may also be shipped from any of the Company’s fulfillment centers or from a different store location if an item is not available at the original store. Digital orders are primarily shipped to the Company’s customers through its fulfillment centers but may also be shipped from any store or a combination of fulfillment centers and stores depending on the availability of particular items. Digital orders may also be picked up at a store location, and customers may also return certain merchandise purchased through digital channels at store locations. As the Company’s customers continue to shop across multiple channels, the Company has adapted its approach towards meeting this demand. Due to the availability of like product in a variety of shopping channels, the Company sources these products utilizing single stock keeping units based on the omni-channel demand rather than the demand of the separate channels. These and other technological capabilities allow the Company to better serve its customers and help it to complete a sale that otherwise may not have occurred due to out-of-stock positions. The Company manages and analyzes its performance based on a single omni-channel rather than separate channels and believe that the omni-channel results present the most meaningful and appropriate measure of its performance.

The accounting policies of the reportable segments are the same as the policies described in Note 2, “Summary of Significant Accounting Policies,” in the Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements included in the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended January 31, 2019. Both the Retail and Wholesale segments are highly diversified. No one customer constitutes more than 10% of the Company’s total consolidated net sales. A summary of the information about the Company’s operations by segment is as follows:

 

 

 

Three Months Ended

 

 

 

April 30,

 

 

 

2019

 

 

2018

 

Net sales

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Retail operations

 

$

782,563

 

 

$

775,564

 

Wholesale operations

 

 

84,365

 

 

 

82,941

 

Intersegment elimination

 

 

(2,515

)

 

 

(2,817

)

Total net sales

 

$

864,413

 

 

$

855,688

 

Income from operations

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Retail operations

 

$

34,694

 

 

$

51,872

 

Wholesale operations

 

 

16,761

 

 

 

14,805

 

Subscription operations

 

 

(2,101

)

 

 

 

Intersegment elimination

 

 

(63

)

 

 

34

 

Total segment operating income

 

 

49,291

 

 

 

66,711

 

General corporate expenses

 

 

(9,271

)

 

 

(12,815

)

Total income from operations

 

$

40,020

 

 

$

53,896

 

 

 

 

April 30,

 

 

January 31,

 

 

April 30,

 

 

 

2019

 

 

2019

 

 

2018

 

Inventory

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Retail operations

 

$

365,554

 

 

$

328,783

 

 

$

353,423

 

Wholesale operations

 

 

42,808

 

 

 

41,724

 

 

 

51,194

 

Total inventory

 

$

408,362

 

 

$

370,507

 

 

$

404,617

 

Property and equipment, net

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Retail operations

 

$

819,062

 

 

$

793,640

 

 

$

817,277

 

Wholesale operations

 

 

2,312

 

 

 

2,389

 

 

 

2,448

 

Subscription operations

 

 

7,698

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Total property and equipment, net

 

$

829,072

 

 

$

796,029

 

 

$

819,725

 

 

The following tables summarize net sales and percentage of net sales from contracts with customers by merchandise category:

 

 

 

Three Months Ended

 

 

 

April 30,

 

 

 

2019

 

 

2018

 

Net sales

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Apparel (1)

 

$

588,726

 

 

$

599,688

 

Home (2)

 

 

124,548

 

 

 

114,348

 

Accessories (3)

 

 

100,268

 

 

 

98,775

 

Other (4)

 

 

50,871

 

 

 

42,877

 

Total net sales

 

$

864,413

 

 

$

855,688

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

As a percentage of net sales

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Apparel (1)

 

 

68

%

 

 

70

%

Home (2)

 

 

14

%

 

 

13

%

Accessories (3)

 

 

12

%

 

 

12

%

Other (4)

 

 

6

%

 

 

5

%

Total net sales

 

 

100

%

 

 

100

%

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(1)   Apparel includes intimates and activewear

 

(2)   Home includes home furnishings, electronics, gifts and decorative items

 

(3)   Accessories includes footwear, jewelry and handbags

 

(4)   Other includes beauty, shipping and handling revenues and the Food and Beverage division

 

 

Apparel, Home, and Accessories are sold through both the Retail and Wholesale segments. Revenue recognized from the Other category is primarily attributable to the Retail segment.

The Company has foreign operations primarily in Europe and Canada. Revenues and long-lived assets, based upon the Company’s domestic and foreign operations, are as follows:

 

 

 

April 30,

 

 

January 31,

 

 

April 30,

 

 

 

2019

 

 

2019

 

 

2018

 

Property and equipment, net

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Domestic operations

 

$

758,794

 

 

$

723,400

 

 

$

735,473

 

Foreign operations

 

 

70,278

 

 

 

72,629

 

 

 

84,252

 

Total property and equipment, net

 

$

829,072

 

 

$

796,029

 

 

$

819,725

 

 

 

 

Three Months Ended

 

 

 

April 30,

 

 

 

2019

 

 

2018

 

Net Sales

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Domestic operations

 

$

763,089

 

 

$

747,151

 

Foreign operations

 

 

101,324

 

 

 

108,537

 

Total net sales

 

$

864,413

 

 

$

855,688