Morris Goldfarb
Analyst · Piper Jaffray
Good morning. With me today are Sammy Aaron, our Vice Chairman; Neal Nackman, our Chief Financial Officer; and Wayne Miller, our Chief Operating Officer. We had a very good second quarter. Across the board, our businesses are healthy. We met our revenue plan, exceeded profit goals and have booked well for our key fall season. We are positioned for a strong second half performance. We also acquired Vilebrequin, a leading luxury resort brand, which we believe is capable of significant expansion. Neal will run through the details in a few moments, but here are the financial highlights from the second quarter.
We grew our revenues 9% to $251 million. This is right in line with our plan. I'll go through each major category in a moment, but the key drivers were dresses, sportswear, suits, handbags, team sports and our specialty retail operations, which had a strong double-digit comp performance in the quarter.
Adjusted EPS was $0.13 per share, and GAAP earnings per share was $0.07 compared to prior year GAAP EPS of $0.08 per share. As you look at our GAAP numbers, bear in mind that there are $1.8 million of expenses related to the Vilebrequin acquisition included in this year's numbers. When taking these expenses into account, our earnings performance was better than we expected. While our key season is still ahead of us, our strong second quarter gives us comfort that we're in good shape to achieve our increased earnings per share guidance for the full year.
Our acquisition of Vilebrequin, which is truly an outstanding luxury resort brand, was another significant accomplishment for us. We believe Vilebrequin, which we acquired on August 7, is going to prove capable of significant growth. We think the brand is powerful enough to go beyond the swim category and, because of its pricing power, will support the development of a high-margin, multi-category business. It immediately increases our diversification. While accretion is not expected to occur until next year, we're excited that we continue to grow our brand portfolio and have added to our exceptional management team.
I'd like to now walk you through some of our major brands and businesses. I will start with Calvin Klein, which remains our most important and deepest strategic relationship. I'm pleased to report that this past quarter, we extended the term of many of our Calvin Klein licenses. Calvin Klein Dresses had a very good spring season and continues to be the leading dress resource for department stores across the country. We expect another strong year from this business. We're also pleased with our Calvin Klein sportswear business. Our margin improved in the second quarter, and selling is strong at retail. In the second half, we expect to see higher shipments to retailers as our order book has filled out quickly. We believe these improvements are the direct result in the change in senior managements for this division that we've made.
Calvin Klein handbags also continues to expand. We're excited to be installing fixtured areas for the handbags with some of our retail partners. The business is growing both through addition of new doors and through increased penetration. I should also mention that our luggage business, which includes both Calvin Klein and Tommy Hilfiger, is growing and proceeding on plan.
Our Calvin Klein Women's Suit and separates business also had a very good second quarter. We believe that our initiative in suit separates has the potential to revitalize the entire suit department. We've developed fixturing plans to build on this performance, and we will continue to ramp this business up as we go into the second half of the year.
Our Calvin Klein Performance wholesale business in the United States is doing well. Our China joint venture for Calvin Klein Performance is expected to open its first few retail locations by October. We're excited about the potential for this initiative. Last, but certainly not least, our Calvin Klein men's and women's outerwear is expected to have a good season. Our team sports business, driven partly by our expanded deal with the NFL, also had a strong second quarter. It has booked well on top of a standout performance last year. Both women's and men's coats and knits continue to grow in many areas of this business.
Jessica Simpson Dresses is now in almost 1,000 doors, up from 450 a year ago. We'll be working on a dress shop rollout for this upcoming spring season. Our new Jessica Simpson ladies outerwear has booked well for fall.
Our Vince Camuto dress line is positioned to be a key growth business for us in the dress category. We're in approximately 450 doors with this product. We are also pleased with the further development of Jessica Howard, Eliza J, Guess?, Andrew Marc and Ellen Tracy dresses. Our Kensie Spring sportswear launch has gone well. We're now in 650 doors and plan to be in 850 for fall. We're shipping Kensie dresses this fall. The response to both lines has been quite good. We're pleased with the direction of our Kensie business. Our Wilsons outlet business had a great second quarter with comparable store sales up 12.7%. Handbags and accessories led the way for the quarter, but outerwear outpaced last year as well. We're ahead of plan and expect to carry this momentum into the second half.
We continue to be pleased with our own Andrew Marc brand with its continued license development. In addition, we're introducing -- reintroducing Marc Moto, a luxury denim-inspired men's sportswear business for this fall. We're off to a good starting in shipping outerwear to our retail partners for the fall season. In addition to Calvin Klein outerwear, which we previously mentioned, we also expect a good year from our other outerwear brands, including Levi's, Kenneth Cole, Guess? and Cole Haan. Our strategic progress during the quarter is best reflected in our announcement just a few weeks ago that we've acquired Vilebrequin, an exciting global luxury resort brand. This is a good acquisition for G-III. We've already started to develop a long-term strategic plan.
Roland Herlory, our new CEO of Vilebrequin, started officially on September 1 but is already very involved in the business and played an important role in our due diligence process prior to closing the deal. Roland is no stranger to luxury retailing. He spent the last 23 years contributing to the success of Hermès, one of the premier luxury brands in the world. Over time, we expect to leverage this brand. We have 60 company-owned stores and approximately 20 franchise partners around the world. Vilebrequin also has a select wholesale business with luxury retailers such as Bergdorf Goodman, Neiman Marcus, Saks, Barneys, Nordstrom’s, Bloomingdale's and other leading specialty stores. The Vilebrequin business is a high operating margin business, commensurative with other international luxury brands. While the brand is currently primarily focused on men's swimwear and resort wear, we believe we can expand it into other categories, as well as into the women's market. We have a strong management team at Vilebrequin, and I think the brand is much bigger than the current size of the business. We believe that Vilebrequin has strong growth potential both here in the United States, as well as throughout the world, particularly in markets such as China and Japan.
I hope this all gives you a good sense of how well we're operating and that we're making good strategic progress. We're in a good position to have strong second quarter of the year -- second half of the year. I now ask Neal to run through the numbers and the guidance in detail.