This research report examines the finances of this company. A ratio analysis is included and projections are made. This seven page paper has six sources listed in the bibliography.
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The company achieves this with its own brand as well as some subsidiary businesses units; namely Banana Republic and Old Navy brand names. The Gap brand include; Gap, GapKids, babyGap,
GapBody and Gap Outlet (The Gap Inc, 2002). The image is good, however, there have been short term problems, increasing debt and lower return with little change indicated in the
short term. This means any recommendation for this share would be to sell, or not buy it. In examining the company it is the 2001 accounts that will be
examined, The 2001 accounts were prepared with February 2002 as the year end, and was a fifty two week year, the previous year was a fifty three week year.
Operations are conducted in the US, where the majority of sales take place as well as Canada, Germany, the United Kingdom, Japan and
France for Gap International, Banana Republic and Old Navy are only present in the US and Canada. In terms of operation size the domestic division of Gap is largest, with
a total of 2,298 stores covering 13.2 million square feet, Old Navy is in second place with 798 stores and 16 million square feet, Gap International is next with a
total of 634 stores covering 3.5 million square feet, and Banana Republic has 441 stores across 3.6 million square feet (Gap, 2002). This is an increases of 13% in the
number of stores and 165% in the square feet of stores in the year before. Therefore it is apparent that the company is current following a growth strategy. The
largest section by revenue is Gap domestic, with sales of $5.2 billion in 2001 compared to $5.5 billion in 2000l a fall of 12%, however, with 1999 sales of $4.