Belle International, the leading Chinese sports and footwear retailer, said that comparable sales in its sportswear stores jumped by 10 percent for the fourth quarter of last year, while the comparable sales of its footwear stores increased by 3 percent. The company had 17,564 directly managed stores around mainland China at the end of the quarter, consisting of 12,090 footwear outlets and 5,474 sportswear outlets, which was an increase of 889 stores for the three months.