That is something that Gymboree had in China for a while, through a franchisee before, through 200 centers around China.

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So we did a JV with Gymboree U.S. and set up a Chinese business here a year and half ago.

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Its headquarters look like a cross between Animal House and Gymboree, and the desks are homemade jobs consisting of surplus doors and sawhorses.

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Gymboree's store base has grown 25% from the time we wrote our story, but same-store sales keep falling, dropping 16% in the second quarter.

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He is the first American executive at the company, and given his background at Toys R Us, Gymboree and Pepsico, Uniqlo clearly wants to infuse the company with U.S. retail experience.

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Crew and Gymboree announced in recent months and A.C.

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At age 32, Matthew McCauley became the youngest-ever CEO at Gymboree Corp. when he took the top job in 2006, less than five years after the specialty retailer had hired him as director of allocation.

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Among the names that Janjigian recommends: kids' clothes company Gymboree (nasdaq: GYMB - news - people ), beer behemoth Anheuser-Busch (nyse: BUD - news - people ), Xerox (nyse: XRX - news - people ) and Nike (nyse: NKE - news - people ).

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