Article: KURT SALMON ASSOCIATES ISSUES 3 FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE PROFILES

-- Profits For Retailers and Apparel/Footwear Producers Off

11% on 10% More Sales

-- Profits Dip 22% In Home & Leisure Products Despite 13% Sales Rise

-- Food and Personal Care Products The Only Profitable Sector Last

Year

ATLANTA, July 10 /PRNewswire/ -- In a difficult year for retailing and soft goods, five of eight companies in Kurt Salmon Associates' (KSA) Personal Consumer Products & Retail profile had lower earnings in 1995, and one out of four ended in the red. The financial performance study was one of three issued today by Kurt Salmon Associates, international management consultants.

In a year marked by heavy price ...

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