Sales Aloft

Limited Brands Inc. (Columbus, Ohio) and Chico's FAS Inc. (Fort Myers, Fla.) reported sales increases for May 2003.

Limited Brands showed a same-store sales increase of 1% for the four weeks ended May 31, 2003. Net5 sales were up 3.1% across all of its various brand divisions.

Chico's showed an 11.7% gain in same-store sales for the four-week period. Total sales gained 36.0%. For the 17 weeks ended May 31, total sales increased 31.2% and same- store sales jumped 8.8% for its 409 women's specialty stores — 368 company-owned Chico's front-line stores, 19 Chico's outlet stores and 10 Pazo stores (plus 12 franchised Chico's stores).