Maxine Clark
Maxine Clark
Maxine Clarkis founder of Build-A-Bear Workshop, an American retailer that sells customizable teddy bears and other stuffed animals...
ProfessionEntrepreneur
Date of Birth6 March 1949
CityCoral Gables, FL
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Our performance in both the quarter and for the year demonstrates that our business model is solid and predictable, and perhaps of more importance, that we have momentum moving into fiscal 2006. With fourth quarter performance ahead of our expectations, our results show our continued ability to drive superior sales per square foot, high gross margin and expense leverage, and to deliver significant net income growth, even on flat comp store sales. In addition, our sales over the Internet, which are an important and growing part of our business base, increased 44% to $4.0 million in the quarter, and for the year contributed $8.7 million to our sales.
enhancing families family forward fun stores strategy wherever workshop
These stores are part of our strategy to take Build-A-Bear Workshop to wherever families go to have fun. We look forward to being a part of more ballparks and of enhancing that family fun.
experience helped park store theme
Our store is about an experience. We wanted our store to be like a theme park in the mall, and that's really what they've helped us create.
april easter fell holiday included last performance pleased progress quarter sales second since year
We are pleased with our performance and progress in the first quarter, especially since the first quarter of last year included sales generated by the Easter holiday. This year, the Easter holiday fell in April and is in our second quarter.
customers pink purple
We know what the (Friends2BMade) customers like: They like pink, pink and pink, and they like purple, purple and purple.