Like everyone else, Ando looks to the Web to cut the steps between factory and store.
This factory and store has been in business since the early 1800s, and makes dinnerware and bakeware, including collectible Derby pieces.
Barry Smith owns the Louisiana Music Factory record store in New Orleans.
Mr. BARRY SMITH (owner, Louisiana Music Factory record store in New Orleans): I'm very low-tech myself, and I know as far as our customers, we still do quite well with the records upstairs.
Every new store or factory is purchased with what is left after paying taxes.
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Citing an increasingly promotional environment Coach reinstated in-store coupons in factory stores.
The company's new in-house system can track every piece of HP hardware and project its sales potential from a factory in Thailand to a store in Biloxi, Mississippi.
Originally used to make transformers for Westinghouse and then ABB, the factory had been used to store ketchup and as a Halloween house since the latter company left town in 1998.
Lhuillier's average day is spent convening with her design team, monitoring the progress of licensing deals and conducting fittings, overseeing PR and production, making visits to her LA flagship store and her factory.
The son of a Buffalo factory owner and a museum-store manager, Godin says he started reading business books at age 12.
Mr. Madrigal also performed comedy tenaciously, doing up to 10 shows a week at clubs like the Comedy Store and the Laugh Factory.
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So you look at where do the raw materials come from, what's the energy used to make them, how much pollution was generated, how did they get from the factory to the distribution center to the store.
Galli now demands 5% annual increases in factory productivity and unleashes dedicated sales teams that work the store floor and talk to the highest levels at Home Depot, Wal-Mart and Lowe's.
Coach operates 342 retail stores and 121 factory outlets in North America where direct-to-consumer same-store sales rose 6.3% on a comparable 14-week basis.
Several factory spaces have been converted into research centers, conference halls and warehouses, which store antique handicrafts salvaged from remote provinces of China.
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He found a new job in a specialty food store, but it paid much less than his old one in a plastics factory.
The store and retail park, to have been built on the former Bally Shoe factory off Hall Road, would have been known as Harford Place.
But the company has faced a barrage of unfavorable publicity in recent months, including the fallout from allegations that it bribed officials in Mexico in order to smooth the way for store expansion, and criticism about its global sourcing practices after its clothing was found in a Bangladesh factory where more than 100 workers died in a fire last year.
We've also got interviews with Seattle's Sub Pop Records, music criticism site Pitchfork and California record store Amoeba, plus trips to music app developer Smule, internet radio pioneer Pandora and the legendary Moog factory.
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