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Hindsight is so easy. By definition, it’s correct – 20/20 in fact, as the old saying goes, so I take neither credit for nor pride in analyzing and assessing the key events that have transpired at the Liz Claiborne Corporation […]
Is the Liz Claiborne Board Missing In Action?
This question, asked with increasing frequency across the apparel and retail industry, refers to the Liz Claiborne Inc. (LIZ) Board of Director’s apparent tolerance of 14 consecutive quarters of per-share losses. Annual revenues of $5 billion when CEO Bill McComb
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Size Matters
Small is In After two years of declining domestic same store sales, Walmart (WMT) is finally getting it. However, it might be too late. What they finally ‘got’ is a small store strategy, that they now understand they must accelerate.
Let the Deals Begin
Or: Don\’t Touch That Dial I do hope everybody else is right and I’m wrong as the last “double-dipper” standing, who still believes another economic decline looms. I hope I’m wrong in still believing there’s no more “road to kick
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Q&A with Jane Elfers, CEO of The Children’s Place
We had the opportunity to talk with Jane Elfers, CEO of The Children’s Place, the number one pure-play children’s specialty apparel retailer. Here’s what she had to say about her first year at the company, the differences between the specialty
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M&A Musings
Who’s Next on the Block? By Judith Russell Why speculate on M&A candidates? Other than the fact that it’s fun, and human nature – like guessing who’ll toss his or her hat into the presidential race, or which celebrities will
Easing the Margin Squeeze
Supply Chain Optimization Can Offset Rising Costs Best Practices from Kurt Salmon For most of the last two decades, the U.S. retail industry has benefitted from a thriving American consumer economy and a commitment from China to provide low costs.
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Best and Brightest Need Apply
Newly Minted College Grads Passing Retail By Reflections from The Corner Office from Herbert Mines Associates By Kristin S. Dennehy Herbert Mines Associates recently conducted a “Retail Leadership” survey of 135 Presidents and CEOs with Women’s Wear Daily and found
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Q&A with Jan Hatzius, Chief U.S. Economist, Goldman Sachs
We talked with the Goldman Sachs Chief U.S. Economist, who is responsible for setting the firm’s U.S. economic and interest rate outlook, about his forecast for economic growth and employment, the likelihood of another economic decline, and the future role
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Beauty Be-Tween The Lines
Make-up for the Playdate Set When she isn’t marching around the house ordering her parents to stop using plastic grocery bags “because sea turtles swallow them and die,” five-year-old Parker is rocking out in her hot pink bedroom to Taylor
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