Gap "still not there" despite earnings gains

Author: just-style.com | 25 February 2011

Even though specialty clothing retailer Gap Inc has just ended a five-year run of declining same-store sales, the retailer has confessed it is planning conservatively for the year ahead as it tries to dig its North American business out of a rut.

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