He briefed them on the plan, and gave them Studio 6 business cards and clothes to make them look more Hollywood.
It has not ventured into Italy or Spain, it is only now entering France (it opened its first store there in Paris on February 25th), it has a few shops in Britain, and in Germany its share of the clothes business is negligible.
Though Baird's plans make sense (not least because Coats has mismanaged its crown jewel, Jaeger women's wear), Coats is unwilling to demerge clothes from its thread business.
Online clothes sales have become big business, helping make the high-profile collapse of sportswear store Boo.com in 2000 seem a distant memory.
She already has her next business plan in place: to buy clothes in Aizawl and sell them in neighboring states, at a markup.
Vice President of the East Coast Television and Microwave Oven Programming for General Electric, Jack is as known for his savvy executive business decisions as he is his viewpoint on clothes.
"I think we did a good job, " Stanfill says, pointing out that keeping clothes in good shape is a difficult business, susceptible as they are to both light and dust.
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It was an absurd amount of money for the bank to lend Stern, whose business history included operating clothing distribution companies that imported clothes from Mexico and two contentious corporate bankruptcies.
Eight years ago, Texas resident Cynthia Ivie, a 43-year-old sales rep for Newsweek, struck out for Chicago with no more than a business idea and a 1989 Toyota Corolla packed with clothes, books, a vacuum cleaner, a stereo and a cocker spaniel named Buckley.
Think about how many business casual experiments went awry when someone showed up in clothes more suitable for club-going.
Clothes with everyday designs are worn regularly in business and academic settings, while special varieties are incorporated into celebrations of marriage and pregnancy and into puppet theatre and other art forms.
Big international brands continue to do business with the BGMEA because they are in the market for the cheap clothes Bangladesh can supply.
Stonehouse faked his own death while on a business trip to Miami, returning unnoticed from a swim, leaving his clothes on the beach and assuming the identity of a dead constituent, Joe Markham.
The firm has been propping up Britain's uneconomic textile business for years, but now it plans to slash the share of clothes it sources from Britain from 50% now to the industry average of 30%.
He had done many things, including selling fish, trading clothes and running a restaurant, before he opened his first foot massage business in Henan.
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The streets teem with shoppers keenly stocking up on everything from fancy new clothes and festive household decorations, to gifts for family, friends and business acquaintances.
During a business trip to Los Angeles in the 1980s, he dropped off a suit and clothes for cleaning a few days before a big meeting.
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"When I started my business six years ago, there was very little choice for women who wanted fashionable maternity clothes, " says Lange, who also has three boutiques selling higher-priced styles for soon-to-be mommies.
Brylane, one of the market leaders, sells clothes up to size 60, and finds that a third of its large-size business is in 28 (ie, a 45-inch waist) and over.
With the expansion from women's clothes to take in wallpaper, furniture, bedding, lampshades and bath products, the business and its 500 shops across the world seemed set for a flourishing future.
Miss Hill said their research has shown that the festival brought business to pubs and food retailers, and even benefitted charity shops where festival goers used to buy their clothes.
"It is now time for companies to move beyond vague promises, business-as-usual self-regulatory schemes and rhetoric, " said Ineke Zeldenrust, director of Clean Clothes Campaign, a garment workers-rights group that helped hammer out the accord.
And while the recession and keeping her business profitable are her biggest concerns, she doesn't think women should feel embarrassed about loving to shop for clothes.
Waitt, who sports casual clothes and shaggy strawberry-blond hair, is one of myriad monied outsiders buying their way into show business, including Marshall Field heir Frederick (Ted) Field and Federal Express founder Frederick Smith.
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