Delta Apparel makes gains with basics and direct-to-garment printing

Greenville, South Carolina-based Delta Attire, Inc. reported its first quarter and first half 2018 outcomes on Monday, with average progress within the group’s fundamentals section dampened by its branded division.

 
Web gross sales for the second quarter ended March 31, 2018 have been $100.0 million in comparison with $104.1 million within the earlier 12 months. The corporate did, nevertheless, emphasize that this determine is a rise of $1.9 million, or 2%, when the $6.0 million acquire attributable to Junkfood Clothes – offered to JMJD final 12 months – is subtracted from the 2017 whole.
 
Web revenue got here to $3.6 million.

The group’s fundamentals section noticed revenues rise 4% to $73.7 million within the quarter. Activewear gross sales rose 2%, led by a 15% enhance in catalog gross sales however offset by a decline in personal label gross sales.
 
Inside this section, the second quarter additionally noticed the acquisition of direct-to-garment printing firm DTG2Go in March. This new acquisition was mixed with Delta’s current printing model Artwork Gun (beneath the identify DTG2Go) and achieved a 60% enhance in gross sales Q2.
 
This progress was offset considerably by Delta’s branded section which noticed revenues drop to $26.3 million from $33.3 million within the prior 12 months interval, due partly to the corporate’s choice to divest itself of Junkfood Clothes in March of final 12 months.

Gross sales of Delta’s Soffe model additionally fell barely within the quarter from $12.8 million to $12.4 million, though they grew virtually 10% within the first six months of the fiscal 12 months, pushed by e-commerce and inclusive sizing initiatives.
 
Delta additionally highlighted the efficiency of Salt Life, whose gross sales rose 7%, with progress made throughout most channels.
 
“Our fiscal 2018 second quarter was each productive and worthwhile, with year-over-year natural gross sales and earnings progress in market situations that remained difficult,” mentioned Delta Attire Chairman and CEO Robert W. Humphreys in a launch.
 
“Regardless of an uneven retail setting and value pressures in plenty of areas, our general first-half efficiency was stable and our crew is targeted on methods that ought to meaningfully affect each the highest and backside traces.”
 
Within the first six months of fiscal 2018, Delta’s internet gross sales rose to $190.3 million from $189.5 million within the first half of 2017, up 9% when excluding the $15.4 million of gross sales accounted for by Junkfood Clothes within the prior 12 months interval.
 
Web loss for the interval was $6.3 million, together with a $10.6 million cost associated to the US tax reform laws.
 
Excluding the adverse results of the tax cost, earnings have been $4.2 million, up 12% from $3.9 million.