"We just completed a strong first quarter to begin fiscal year 2012," said Robert W. Humphreys, chairman and chief executive officer for Delta Apparel. "Each operating division increased revenues, contributing to the 14.5 percent organic sales growth during the quarter. Demand for our brands, licensed properties and decorated merchandise continues to grow, which allows us to ship higher value product to our retail partners and directly to consumers through our e-commerce sites. Our manufacturing facilities are operating efficiently and we are leveraging our fixed costs on higher volumes to improve our profitability. We anticipate continued revenue growth in the upcoming quarters, although we expect our profitability to be negatively impacted with our highest cost cotton flowing through cost of sales in our second and third fiscal quarters. Despite these less than ideal conditions, we expect to generate earnings growth in fiscal year 2012."
- Companies:
- Delta Apparel
- People:
- Robert W. Humphreys