About Aritzia 2011

1/ Aritzia’s Story2/ About Us3/ About Our Stores

4/ About Our Locations5/ About Our Product6/ About Our Customer

7/ About Our Team8/ Our Business is Strong9/ About Our Fans

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ARITZIA IS A STORy Of RETAIL SuCCESS. fOR OvER 25 yEARS, wE’vE ExpERIEnCEd COnSISTEnT gROwTh And wE’RE STILL gOIng STROng.

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ABOUT US

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we’re a vertically integrated, multi-label luxury apparel retailer for young, affluent and style-forward women. Our retail environment offers a boutique experience that is si-multaneously aspirational and accessible.

brian hill, Aritzia’s founder, is a third-generation retailer and continues to drive the company forward in his role as ceo.

we’ve consistently operated as the premier fashion retailer in Canada since our inception. from 2005, we’ve partnered with berkshire partners in boston to help propel us towards our goal of becoming the foremost fashion retailer for young American women.

for the past three years, we’ve brought that high degree of success to our operations in the united States.

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Aritzia connects customers to the energy of culture.

we are inspired by music and art and have partnered with famed photographers such as Ryan Mcginley. we hand-select every piece of art that goes into our stores and have an in-house team of artists, graphic designers and installation artists for a vast range of projects.

Our stores play a diverse selection of up-and-coming music and we regularly feature Aritzia-exclusive, dJ-mixed playl-ists in our stores as well as on our website.

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ABOUT OUr STOreS

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—Aritzia is considered to have the finest real estate portfolio in the industry with stores operating at aaa locations in major markets throughout north America.

—we are often featured on the co-tenancy lists of retailers such as Coach, Tiffany & Co, Abercrombie & fitch, h&m and urban Outfitters.

In MAy 2011, wE wILL OpEn ThE dOORS TO OuR fLAgShIp STORE In SOhO, LOCATEd AT ThE CORnER Of bROAdwAy & SpRIng.

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—we invest significant amounts of money on our stores to ensure that every detail, from the quality of design and materials to the workmanship, lives up to our exceptionally high standards.—All Aritzia stores are designed by our in-house team of architects.

—Every piece of furniture as well as all fixtures, finishes and graphics are carefully planned and coordinated to create the finest retail environment.—To complete the upscale, boutique-shopping experience we offer our customers, a meticulously considered selection of music, art and literature are chosen for our stores.

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ABOUT OUr LOCATiOnS

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building on our successful portfolio of more than 40 locations in Canada, we’ve opened eight flourishing stores in the u.s. we are positioned to further continue our expansion in the u.s. market.

Our u.s. locations currently include stores in new Jersey, Chicago, San francisco, Santa Clara, portland and Seattle.

we take pride in the fact that Aritzia has never closed a store.

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Calgary

winnipeg

Edmonton

Toronto

Kitchener

Chicago

Ottawa

Short hills

vancouver

bellevue

whistler

victoria

portland

San francisco

Santa Clara

Londonnew york

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ABOUT OUr PrODUCT

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we offer an expansive and diverse range of young women’s fashion apparel with com-plete collections to satisfy both their lifestyle and style-forward needs. we employ a fully integrated, vertical retail strategy, with a proven system in place for

product development, design, merchandising and retail functions for the majority of our merchandise. There are 30 in-house design-ers, who develop and create our exclusive labels.

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we source materials from destinations across the globe and our products are made both in-ternationally as well as domestically in Canada and the united States.

Our exclusive labels are complemented by a carefully curated selection of contemporary brands from around the world including the likes of J brand, Citizens of humanity, Acne and Marc by Marc Jacobs to vanessa bruno Athé, See by Chloe and mm6 by Martin Margiela. In many cases, we are one of the top accounts for these companies globally.

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ABOUT OUr CUSTOMer

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Aritzia’s core customers are style-forward women between the ages of 15-35 with the luxury of disposable incomes. Our customer is well-versed on the latest in fashion, life-style, music and art.

Our market research has demonstrated that we have a highly loyal customer base, with over 86 percent of respondents stating that they would strongly recommend Aritzia to a friend.

when asked which store our customers shopped at most often, Aritzia was cited over three times more than any other re-tailer. Over 80 percent of the customers surveyed shop with us at least once a month and 75 percent have been shopping at Arit-zia for more than three years. Aritzia has proven itself as a trusted fashion destination.

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we maintain a robust clientele database by creating a direct, personal connection with our customers that supports their continued loyalty as well as a high level of customer satisfaction.

Other retailers that our customers may be found shopping at would include department stores such as barneys, barneys Co-Op, neiman Marcus, specialty stores such as Zara, urban Outfitters,

Abercrombie & fitch and Anthropologie, and boutiques such as Opening Ceremony, fred Segal, Intermix and Scoop nyc.

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ABOUT OUr TeAM

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Aritzia employs approximately 2,000 people throughout north America.

Our people are the ultimate reflection of our brand: youthful, creative, motivated and intel-ligent.

Aritzia has an established team of dedicated and talented executives with an average ten-ure of 15 years.

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ABOUT US

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—brian hill :ceo of aritzia

brian hill has more than 25 years ofleadership experience, since the inception of Aritzia in 1984. A third generation retailer, he has created internationally recognized brands such as TnA, Talula, T.babaton, Community, wilfred, and A Moveable feast. An accomplished corporate strategist and retailer, his vision and expertise in business performance have driven notable enterprise growth in the retail sector.

Aritzia has grown to thirty-eight (38 loca-tions across Canada, which includes five (5) TnA stores. Aritzia is Canada’s highest performing women’s retailer, with sales per square foot at four times the industry

average. Aritzia’s eight (8) u.S. boutiques are located in cities such as Santa Clara, Seattle, portland, San francisco, two in Chicago, and one in Short hills, new Jersey. In May 2011, Aritzia will open a flagship store in Soho, new york, bringing the total number of stores to forty-seven (47).

Aritzia has been awarded with several prestigious awards including vertical Retailer of the year in 2001, design & product development for 2002, the CSAE Magazine Award for Canadian Retailer 2004, and was listed as one of the Top 10 best Companies to work for in b.C in 2006 and 2007. brian’s achieve-ments were recognized when he was named Ernst &

young Entrepreneur Of The year® for the pacific Region in 2008.

Offering a rare blend of creative and operational strengths, brian continues to achieve exciting corporate and product success; his concept creation and focus on product-line mix consistently deliver impressive bottom-line results. he is involved in every aspect of the company from brand strategy, operations, product design, packaging, merchandising, real estate, marketing, communications, and human resources. his unique ability to be both involved in the hands-on operations of the business while also driving the strategic vision for the company is what

makes brian hill stand out as an exceptional leader.

brian received his Economics degree from Queen’s university in Kingston, Ontario. he has served on the board of directors of Right to play, as an active member of the bC Advisory network for the Retail Council of Canada, and as director at Apparel bC. his achievements have been featured in fashion magazines and newspapers across the country. An avid cyclist, he resides in vancouver with his wife and two children.

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ARITZIA hAS ThE hIghEST RETAIL SALES pER SQuARE fOOT In nORTh AMERICA.

wE COnSISTEnTLy ExCEEd SALES Of $1,500 per square foot.

ThIS nuMbER IS hIghER ThAn ThAT Of LuLuLEMOn, uRbAn OuTfITTERS, J.CREw, AMERICAn AppAREL And AbERCROMbIE & fITCh.

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ABOUT OUr FAnS

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Aritzia has gained a following of loyal celebrity fans including many young, stylish hollywood stars as well as fashion industry insiders. Most recently, Rachel bilson, Jes-sica Alba, hilary duff, Scarlett Johansson, Reese witherspoon, the cast of ‘Twilight’

and vera wang have all been spotted shop-ping at our stores, some numerous times. for many of these stars, Aritzia is a must-visit shopping destination during their trips to Canada.

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