Boston, MA 10/04/2013 (wallstreetpr) – In Thursday’s trading, Chico’s FAS, Inc. (NYSE:CHS) dropped by 0.06%. The shares opened at a price of $17.04, climbed to an intraday high of $17.19 and dipped to a close of $17.08. Approximately 4.77 million shares were traded on Thursday while an average volume of 3.05 million shares were traded over a 30 day period. The 52-week low of the company’s shares is $15.27 and its 52-week high is $19.95. Chico’s FAS, Inc. (NYSE:CHS) has a market capitalization of $2.75 billion.
About the company
Chico’s FAS, Inc. (NYSE:CHS) is a specialty-retailer of private-branded, casual and dressy clothing, complementary accessories, intimates, as well as other non-clothing gift product s that are sold under the White House, Chico’s, Black Market and Soma Intimates brand names. The Chico’s brand mainly sells designed and private-branded clothing that is targeted at women in the 30+ age bracket. The WHBM brand has designer fashion products and sells fashionable-clothing and accessory-items. These are mainly in black & white and related-shades with some seasonal color-splashes.
The Soma brand is engaged in selling designed private-branded lingerie, lounge-wear and beauty-products to women in the 30+ age bracket. The Boston Proper brand is a catalog and online-based retailer of women’s high-end accessories and apparel. It also produces various catalogs and operates different e-commerce Websites as well as a call0-center that sell its products nationally and globally. As of 28 January 2012, it operated 1,256 different stores in 48 states, Puerto Rico, District of Columbia and the U.S Virgin Islands. On 19 September 2011, the company acquired Boston Proper.
Chico’s FAS, Inc. (NYSE:CHS) boutiques are situated in up-scale outdoor-destinations, shopping-areas, lifestyle specialty-centers, shopping-malls as well as in standalone street-front locations. Each one of its brands has its separate Website, www.whbm.com, www.chicos.com, www.bostonproper.com, www.soma.com. All these sites provide customers the facility to order products online.
