BERLIN, March 5 (Reuters) - German fashion house Hugo Boss BOSSn.DE warned on Thursday that the coronavirus will have asignificant impact on its first-quarter results, with salesfalling particularly in Asia, but also in other key markets.

Hugo Boss said it expects a gradual normalisation by themiddle of the year, but it still foresees a major hit to 2020results. It forecast currency-adjusted sales will rise from zeroto 2%, including a single digit decline in Asia/Pacific.

It expects earnings before interest and taxation (EBIT) tocome in at 320 million-350 million euros ($356-390 million)after a 4% fall to 333 million in 2019 as it invested insprucing up its store network.

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