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SEGMENTS
3 Months Ended
Apr. 30, 2025
SEGMENTS  
SEGMENTS

NOTE 10 – SEGMENTS

The Company’s reportable segments are business units that offer products through different channels of distribution. The Company has two reportable segments: wholesale operations and retail operations. The wholesale operations segment includes sales of products to retailers under owned, licensed and private label brands, as well as sales related to the Karl Lagerfeld and Vilebrequin businesses, including from retail stores operated by Karl Lagerfeld and Vilebrequin, other than sales of product under the Karl Lagerfeld Paris brand generated by the Company’s retail stores and digital platforms. Wholesale revenues also include revenues from license agreements related to trademarks associated with the Company’s owned brands. The retail operations segment consists primarily of direct sales to consumers through company-operated stores, which consists primarily of DKNY and Karl Lagerfeld Paris stores, as well as the digital channels for DKNY, Donna Karan, Karl Lagerfeld Paris, G.H. Bass and Wilsons Leather. Substantially all DKNY and Karl Lagerfeld Paris stores are operated as outlet stores.

The Company determines its operating segments based on how the chief operating decision maker (“CODM”) views and analyzes each segment’s operations and performance. The Company’s CODM is its Chief Executive Officer. The CODM utilizes operating profit or loss as the measure of segment profit or loss. The CODM uses operating profit or loss to determine resource allocation and operational decisions for matters including, but not limited to, compensation, advertising and facilities needs.

All historical financial segment information has been recast to conform to the new disclosure requirements under Accounting Standard Update (“ASU”) 2023-07, “Segment Reporting (Topic 280): Improvements to Reportable Segment Disclosures.”

The following segment information is presented for the three month periods indicated below:

Three Months Ended April 30, 2025

    

Wholesale

    

Retail

    

Elimination (1)

    

Total

(In thousands)

Net sales

$

562,649

$

36,375

$

(15,415)

$

583,609

Cost of goods sold

335,565

16,915

(15,415)

337,065

Gross profit

227,084

19,460

246,544

Selling, general and administrative expenses:

Compensation

96,873

7,269

104,142

Facility fees

45,486

7,386

52,872

Advertising

28,172

3,433

31,605

Other segment items(2)

39,180

3,696

42,876

Total selling, general and administrative expenses

209,711

21,784

231,495

Depreciation and amortization

5,692

881

6,573

Operating profit (loss)

$

11,681

$

(3,205)

$

$

8,476

Three Months Ended April 30, 2024

    

Wholesale

    

Retail

    

Elimination (1)

    

Total

(In thousands)

Net sales

$

597,766

$

30,528

$

(18,547)

$

609,747

Cost of goods sold

353,228

16,173

(18,547)

350,854

Gross profit

244,538

14,355

258,893

Selling, general and administrative expenses:

Compensation

100,231

7,514

107,745

Facility fees

45,991

8,182

54,173

Advertising

33,967

2,266

36,233

Other segment items(2)

35,386

3,084

38,470

Total selling, general and administrative expenses

215,575

21,046

236,621

Depreciation and amortization

7,015

1,753

8,768

Operating profit (loss)

$

21,948

$

(8,444)

$

$

13,504

(1)Represents intersegment sales to the Company’s retail operations segment.
(2)Other segment items include design and product development costs, professional fees, office expenses, freight and packaging and other selling, general and administrative expenses.

The total net sales by licensed and proprietary product sales for each of the Company’s reportable segments are as follows:

Three Months Ended

    

April 30, 2025

    

April 30, 2024

(In thousands)

Licensed brands

$

199,060

$

261,706

Proprietary brands

363,589

336,060

Wholesale net sales

$

562,649

$

597,766

Licensed brands

$

$

Proprietary brands

36,375

30,528

Retail net sales

$

36,375

$

30,528

The Company allocates overhead to its business segments on various bases, which include units shipped, space utilization, inventory levels and relative sales levels, among other factors. The method of allocation has been applied consistently on a period-to-period basis.

The total assets for each of the Company’s reportable segments, as well as assets not allocated to a segment, are as follows:

    

April 30, 2025

    

April 30, 2024

    

January 31, 2025

(In thousands)

Wholesale

$

1,489,257

$

1,451,637

$

1,508,111

Retail

94,998

118,232

97,226

Corporate

831,618

995,530

877,897

Total assets

$

2,415,873

$

2,565,399

$

2,483,234

Capital expenditures during the three months ended April 30, 2025 for the wholesale operations segment and retail operations segment were $2.3 million and $1.0 million, respectively.