This marked a 30% increase from 2009 levels, even though net sales revenues decreased by 5% overall for the entire European region (including Russia and Turkey) during the same period.

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The increase in revenues is primarily due to the same store sales growth partially offset by revenues associated with the net decrease of 50 stores compared to last year.

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In 2012 the Americas accounted for 79% of net sales while EMEA and APAC generated 13% and 8% of revenues, respectively.

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