Wet Seal (WTSLA)

Competition

The women’s retail apparel industry is highly competitive, with fashion, quality, price, location, and service being the principal competitive factors. Our Wet Seal and Arden B stores compete with specialty apparel retailers, department stores, and certain other apparel retailers, including Aeropostale, Anthropologie, Abercrombie & Fitch, Charlotte Russe, Gap, Banana Republic, H&M, Old Navy, Pacific Sunwear, American Eagle, Target, Urban Outfitters, Forever 21, Express, J.C. Penney, Nordstrom, bebe, Zara, Guess?, BCBG, and other regional retailers. Many of our competitors are large national chains that have substantially greater financial, marketing, and other resources than we do. While we believe we compete effectively for favorable site locations and lease terms, competition for prime locations within malls is intense, and we cannot ensure that we will be able to obtain new locations on terms favorable to us, if at all.

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Competition

The women’s retail apparel industry is highly competitive, with fashion, quality, price, location and service being the principal competitive factors. Our Wet Seal and Arden B stores compete with specialty apparel retailers, department stores and certain other apparel retailers, including Aeropostale, Anthropologie, Abercrombie & Fitch, Charlotte Russe, Gap, Banana Republic, H&M, Old Navy, Pacific Sunwear, American Eagle, Target, Urban Outfitters, Forever 21, Express, J.C. Penney, bebe, Zara, Guess? and BCBG. Many of our competitors are large national chains that have substantially greater financial, marketing and other resources than we do. While we believe we compete effectively for favorable site locations and lease terms, competition for prime locations within malls is intense, and we cannot ensure that we will be able to obtain new locations on terms favorable to us, if at all.

Competition

The women’s retail apparel industry is highly competitive, with fashion, quality, price, location and service being the principal competitive factors. Our Wet Seal and Arden B stores compete with specialty apparel retailers, department stores and certain other apparel retailers, including Aeropostale, Anthropologie, Abercrombie & Fitch, Charlotte Russe, Gap, Banana Republic, H&M, Old Navy, Pacific Sunwear, American Eagle, Target, Urban Outfitters, Forever 21, Express, J.C. Penney, bebe, Zara and BCBG. Many of our competitors are large national chains that have substantially greater financial, marketing and other resources than we do. While we believe we compete effectively for favorable site locations and lease terms, competition for prime locations within malls is intense, and we cannot ensure that we will be able to obtain new locations on terms favorable to us, if at all.

Competition

The women’s retail apparel industry is highly competitive, with fashion, quality, price, location, in-store environment and service being the principal competitive factors. Our Wet Seal and Arden B. stores compete with specialty apparel retailers, department stores and certain other apparel retailers, including Aeropostale, Charlotte Russe, Gap, Banana Republic, H&M, Old Navy, Pacific Sunwear, American Eagle, Urban Outfitters, Forever 21, Express, J.C. Penney, bebe, and BCBG. Many of our competitors are large national chains that have substantially greater financial, marketing and other resources than we do. While we believe we compete effectively for favorable site locations and lease terms, competition for prime locations within malls, in particular, and other locations is intense, and we cannot ensure that we will be able to obtain new locations on terms favorable to us, if at all.

Competition

The women’s retail apparel industry is highly competitive, with fashion, quality, price, location, in-store environment and service being the principal competitive factors. Our Wet Seal and Arden B. stores compete with specialty apparel retailers, department stores and certain other apparel retailers, including Aeropostale, Charlotte Russe, Gap, Banana Republic, H&M, Old Navy, Pacific Sunwear, American Eagle, Urban Outfitters, Forever 21, Express, J.C. Penney, bebe, and BCBG. Many of our competitors are large national chains that have substantially greater financial, marketing and other resources than we do. While we believe we compete effectively for favorable site locations and lease terms, competition for prime locations within malls, in particular, and other locations is intense, and we cannot ensure that we will be able to obtain new locations on terms favorable to us, if at all.

Competition

The women’s retail apparel industry is highly competitive, with fashion, quality, price, location, in-store environment and service being the principal competitive factors. We compete with specialty apparel retailers, department stores and certain other apparel retailers, including Charlotte Russe, Gap, Banana Republic, H&M, Old Navy, Pacific Sunwear, American Eagle, Urban Outfitters, Forever 21, Express, bebe, and BCBG. Many of our competitors are large national chains that have substantially greater financial, marketing and other resources than we do. While we believe we compete effectively for favorable site locations and lease terms, competition for prime locations within malls, in particular, and other locations is intense, and we cannot ensure that we will be able to obtain new locations on terms favorable to us, if at all.

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