Victoria's Secret

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Victoria Secret is also a major brand that has been caught for having unethical work conductions for children. Victoria Secret only uses fairtrade cotton in their products to help make a better life for their workers in poor conditions. On their African farms, many of the fairtrade workers have companied about how there is a lack of funding and resources to make a decent living from the company. Not only that but a report came out that a 13-year-old girl was forced to sleep on plastic sheets and was beaten by her boss if she didn’t perform well enough at work.

Victoria’s Secret goal is to increase its profits by 10% and also to maintain and gain customers’ loyalty and their satisfaction. Company’s main goal is to maintain existing customers and gain new ones. Victoria’s Secret is very profitable and well-known brand all over the world and especially in US. Therefore, by launching this new line, Victoria’s Secret does not necessarily aims for enormous increase in profitability but increase in customer-company relationships.

In her interview with Motto, Victoria’s Secret Model Erin Heatherton admitted, “My last two Victoria 's Secret shows, I was told I had to lose weight. I remember staring at my food and thinking maybe I should just not eat.” Erin, like many, was pressured by Victoria’s Secret and societal standards to get a near perfect body image. Stores and their advertisements influence how humans behave, see themselves, and think of other people. Stores can affect consumers in negative and positive ways. Victoria’s Secret, known for its quality lingerie, has also branched off into perfumes, apparel, and lotions. Their audience encompasses mainly ranging from preteen to middle aged ladies. Many of their target audience members are easily influenced by Victoria’s Secret’s advertisement strategies and sales. Victoria’s Secret at the Empire Mall in Sioux Falls attracts customers with elaborate displays, and periodic sales and erases identity by creating a false sense of normalcy.

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The goal of the aerie brand is to fix the body image issue most girls are facing. In efforts to doing this, any photo they take of their clothing on models is said to be “untouched,” meaning Photoshop was not used to enhance the model’s body in any way. They want women to embrace who they are and what their bodies actually look like instead of feeling pressured to hide their bodies because they don’t look like the models. The collection is available in aerie stores throughout the United States and Canada, online at aerie.com and at select American Eagle Outfitters stores. Aerie offers bras and undies exclusively, but also sells sleepwear, swimwear and

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One of the benefits of expanding the MMDC’ line is that the line has already demonstrated the commercial viability of the matching doll and child clothing model. The concept has a proven track record and now the company has only to further build on this successful model. Furthermore, the recent positive publicity engendered by the celebrity sightings, will create an even greater demand for the product, and will allow for the maintenance of premium pricing. We believe that the expanded line will be at least as profitable as the existing line.

Children clothing are become more and more important in the recent years because the country 's fertility rate booms (Askbaby, 2010). Primark increased its market share in the children clothing which could help in boosting the whole sale (Fletcher, 2007). According to Smithers,

Victoria's Secret has a stronghold on the lingerie market. Its store sales this year brought in over $6.1 billion, Even so, some are saying that Victoria's Secret's explosive success might start tumbling because of the paramount demographic of millennials and their changing attitudes. Research analyst Nikki Baird of research firm RSR explained in Forbes how many retailers are trying to cater to millennials to save themselves, but millennials' preferences may not fall in line with what Victoria's Secret stands for. The lingerie industry is going through enormous changes. Thin, models have been replaced by body types that more similar to the everyday

Victoria Secret appears to be a profitable company. Victoria Secret is part of L Brands whose operating income was at $ 211 million, up by $24 million from the last quarter. Specifically at Victoria's Secret, sales increased by 4% to reach 5.4 billion but operating income decreased by 6% to 1.71 billion. It appears that Victoria Secret's major expense was their Cost of Goods Sold, COGS, which totaled at 1.3144 billion. The gross profit percentage as at February 2013 was 47.87% (NASDAQ, 2014).