Swatch Makes Up For Lost Time With Record Sales
Fahad Shabbir (@FahadShabbir) Published July 19, 2018 | 06:37 PM
Swatch, the world's top watchmaker, on Wednesday announced an all-time record in half-year sales, saying it has millennials to thank.
Zurich, (APP - UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 19th Jul, 2018 ) :Swatch, the world's top watchmaker, on Wednesday announced an all-time record in half-year sales, saying it has millennials to thank.
Swatch is best known for its brightly coloured plastic-cased watches, but also owns several luxury brands including Breguet and Omega.
Long the world's biggest watchmaker, Swatch saw sales stumble in the middle of the decade.
"Consumer demand, particularly from millennials, for authentic innovative brand products is greatly increasing on a worldwide scale, regardless of region or price segment," Swatch said in a statement.
Group net sales increased by 14.7 percent at current exchange rates in the first half of 2018 to 4.27 billion Swiss francs ($4.26 billion, 3.7 billion Euros).
Net profit rose by 66.5 percent to 468 million Swiss francs, with operating profit soaring 69.
5 percent to 629 million Swiss francs, the statement said.
The group added that it expects further growth in the second half of the year.
"Impressive acceleration in both sales and quantities sold was reported across the board by all brands and in all price segments, not only in the prestige and luxury segment, but also in the middle and basic price segment," Swatch said.
"All regions contributed to the best first semester sales in the history of the Group, led by Asia with very high growth rates," it added.
"In North America, a double-digit sales increase was also recorded." Swatch had a bad year in 2016, when Swiss watchmakers saw sales drop by 10 percentafter a more than three percent fall in 2015. A strong franc also hurt Swiss watchmakers.
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