The girls emptied the cupboards of clothes, the friend exclaiming over the elaborate range of styles women of that generation wore, how many personalities they could project as if they had been able to choose, when now you belonged to the outfit of jeans and T-shirt.

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Hicks has streamlined operations, minimized markdowns, installed a more disciplined allocations system to determine which stores get how many of what shoes and increased vendor exclusivity (half of product styles and colors are sold only at Foot Locker).

FORBES: Strategies

Distimo styles itself as an app store consultancy, and so it set out to establish how many applications one needs to sell through iTunes in order to get a top 10 hit.

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With so many styles and sounds, it's hard to get invested in the show, no matter how good the performances are.

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