Trans World Revenue Drops 23% in Q4
The old way of selling CDs looks to be dying faster than overall CD sales. Trans World's fourth quarter revenue dropped a whopping 23% and 2007 sales revenue dropped 14% (read press release and 8-K, which has a transcript of the conference call). Net loss for fiscal 2007 was $99.4 million. Comp store sales dropped 8% on the year.
In the conference call, President and COO Jim Litwak said Trans World's comp store music sales dropped 28% in Q4, the top 50 titles 35% in Q4 and the top 50 video titles were down 12%. For the year, comp store music sales dropped 23%.
Store closings and one less week in Q4 definitely affected sales, and the company admitted that its "transition to a full entertainment retailer is taking longer than expected."
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