Where Have All The Hippies Gone? The American Dream that many so-called “hippies” of the 1960s counterculture movement embraced, chanting their mantra of “Peace and Love,” became something very different once the 1970s, which Tom Wolfe named “the Me decade,” […]
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Now you see it. Now you don’t. This time I’m talking about the US economy falling into what may seem to be, and may feel like, inflation, but only for a nanosecond. Then, like sleight of hand, we will seem
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Warnaco’s (WRC) performance since CEO Joe Gromek arrived in 2003 has been spectacular. He inherited a company that was just coming out of bankruptcy, and had suffered a bottom line loss of almost $900 million in 2001 on sales of
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Publicists in the Digital Age Get No Beauty Sleep Ten years ago, the young women who would eventually band together and form the public relations firm DNA, planting their flag in the ‘burbs in Rye, NY, were hard-charging Manhattan beauty
Best Practices from Kurt Salmon The industry knows consumer prices will have to rise this year. Now the question is: by how much? Thanks mostly to a dramatic rise in input costs, retailers are being forced to rework their pricing
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Reflections on the Corner Office from Herbert Mines Associates As the economic outlook has improved in the retail sector, so has the hiring landscape. We talked to Heidi Rustin, Managing Director of Herbert Mines Associates, about the personal side of
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New Single-Serve Deal is Preemptive Distribution on Rocket Fuel Out of the starting gate, it appeared that Starbucks (SBUX) understood preemptive distribution until they didn’t, which resulted in a near death experience that finally jolted them awake like a strong
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Warnaco Inc. (WRC) was founded in the late 1800s when two brothers, New York physicians Lucien and Ira Warner, became concerned about injuries and health problems suffered by women who wore the constricting undergarments of the day. They developed a
I’m back onto economic issues, and how can I not be? What a mess we are in. I honestly do believe we have reached the highest point in our so-called recovery. Read “From Inflation to Stagflation to Deflation,” and “Tech
Is it “here we go again?” Or, is it “this time is different”? Is it “irrational exuberance”? Or, is it a brilliant investment strategy? Is this a new bubble that floats? Or, is this a “same old, same old” bubble
