"In addition, we saw 22 per cent sales growth in our wholesale segment, driven primarily by the inclusion of a non-comparable month of Hudson Jeans and a full quarter of SWIMS sales compared to last year’s first quarter. We also continue to see positive trends in certain areas of the wholesale segment, including strong performance of Hudson Jeans in the specialty retail channel, with sales up 19 per cent over last year’s quarter, and recovery at certain of our major department store accounts. While this is encouraging, we remain cautiously optimistic about the wholesale segment as we continue to navigate a difficult macro selling environment. At Robert Graham, we continue to see strong sell through as the assortment has shifted to more fashion basics. On the infrastructure front, we are planning the process of consolidating our warehouses and various operating platforms, and migrating one of our brands on to our consolidated ERP. We believe all of these initiatives will improve our time to market and enhance our cost efficiencies, which should drive gross margins and result in material expense structure savings. We expect that we will complete these initiatives over the next four to six quarters," Buckley added. (RR)