Article: NEW BRANDS SPUR OXFORD TO NEW HEIGHTS; TOMMY BAHAMA, BEN SHERMAN NOW REPRESENT 40% OF SALES, SHAREHOLDERS TOLD.(Oxford Industries Inc.)

Byline: Brenda Lloyd

ATLANTA -- J. Hicks Lanier had a lot to brag about at the Oxford Industries annual stockholder meeting here last week, and most of it centered around Tommy Bahama.

"We're a much different company today than a few years ago," Lanier, chairman and CEO, told stockholders in the meeting that lasted only a few minutes. In a Power Point presentation, he showed that, in just two years, Oxford's sales have nearly doubled from $764.6 million in fiscal 2003 to $1.313 billion in fiscal 2005, and earnings per share have risen from $1.34 to $2.87.

The new entities -- Tommy Bahama, acquired in 2003, and Ben Sherman, acquired last year ...

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