In a recent article, I described the unique Spanish department store El Corte Ingles which is the only department store retailer in Spain.
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A. from Vanderbilt University, Martin invested in real estate on the side and in 1984 bought Proffitt's, a family-owned four-store department store chain in southeastern Tennessee.
Black students in other Southern towns began to do the same, and lunch counter by lunch counter, drugstore by drugstore, department store by department store, Jim Crow was assaulted by the zealous actions of just a handful of students.
"For the most part I prefer drug store or department store or cosmeceutical products from your dermatologist because they're actually tested on the skin and they go through certain quality control measures, " said New York dermatologist Dr. Doris Day.
We are positive on President Chain Store, Far Eastern Department Store and the steel and cement sectors - anything that is a play on the domestic economy.
Sears Holdings recorded a second-quarter loss due to sagging sales and store closings, and the department store chain slumped 11.9% in early trading.
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Jones Apparel competes with brands like Liz Claiborne and Phillips-Van Heusen, as well as department store mainstays such as Polo Ralph Lauren and store-owned private labels.
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Ms. Kiely got her first major break in 1997, when she worked with U.K. department store Debenhams to develop an exclusive collection for the store.
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For example, even though pvh first thought it could sell Calvin Klein men's sportswear at 700 to 800 U.S. department store locations with in-store space of 1, 500 square feet, it cautiously launched in just 150 stores, with only 500 square feet each. (Today the line is in 500 stores, averaging 750 square feet.) "As the business rolled out, we ramped up to the appropriate size, " says Emanuel Chirico, who was named chief executive last February.
The forecasts for department store Nordstrom call for same-store sales growth of 5.7%.
While this means that customers who missed the Rochas coat during the trunk show might be able to find it on the site months later, during the normal fall shopping season, it also means that Moda needs to buy, store and sell a large inventory of clothing, just like a department store or Net-a-Porter.
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Sexier, but in no less a commodity category, Sephora took on both the over-the-counter department store cosmetic brands and the under-wraps drug store brands and created an open-sell environment as its distinguishing brand factor.
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The forecasts for department store Nordstrom (nyse: JWN - news - people ) call for same-store sales growth of 5.7%.
Request samples at a Kiehl's store (where the selection is usually larger) or a Kiehl's counter in a department store.
Even Nordstrom, a department store that sells more than just expensive designer brands, reported a 10.7% rise in same store sales for that period.
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In 2007 he persuaded a buyer at John Lewis Partnership, a department store owner, to carry two styles of Hunters at its store in Reading, England, the site of an annual music festival.
Indeed, Target sold both Marshall Field's, its own department-store chain, and Mervyn's, a middle-market store chain, earlier this year.
Penney locations fell 26% in the latest quarter, a sign that the 110-year-old department is having trouble maintaining a customer base as transitions to the specialty department store Johnson envisions.
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Elsewhere, department store sales fell 1% during the month - after rising 1.4% in June - while furniture store sales sank 1.3%.
While the tactic works for discounters like Wal-Mart, it has not motivated department-store shoppers.
In 1995 El Corte Ingles bought its only Spanish department store competitor, Galerias Preciados.
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She is an external board director at Bridgestone Tire, foodmaker Ajinomoto and department store operator J.
Slim also owns stakes in department store Saks ( SKS) and the New York Times.
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Weinswig also downgraded two other upscale department-store stocks, assigning a Neutral rating to Nordstrom and Saks.
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The enterprising Gordon Selfridge had the Bleriot XI taken and displayed in his new department store.
Set in a department store, it also starred John Inman, Molly Sugden and Wendy Richard.
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It's like a lot of other Japanese electronics firms, a sort of department store of technology.
Soho House Berlin is housed inside a former 1928 department store in the Mitte District.
But she was recently declined a new major credit card and even a department-store credit card.
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