Krakoff also reworked old standards like polo shirts and track jackets by adding sheer elements to them.
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On the other hand, name-brand manufacturers like Polo and Coach are investing heavily to develop their own retail outlets.
At 12 times trailing earnings, Guess? trades at whopping discounts to peers like Polo Ralph Lauren (25x), V.
Yet promoter-driven events are growing in the U.K., like Polo in the Park, the British Beach Polo Championships and Gaucho International, which mixes polo, wine tasting and club music.
Coach mainly competes with premium apparel and accessories players like Polo Ralph Lauren, Liz Claiborne, and AnnTaylor, as well as high-end brands like Louis Vuitton, Hermes, Gucci and Prada.
Coach competes with other premium apparel and accessories players like Polo Ralph Lauren, Liz Claiborne, and AnnTaylor, as well as high-end brands like Louis Vuitton, Hermes, Gucci and Prada.
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The firm competes with other premium apparel and accessories players like Polo Ralph Lauren, Liz Claiborne, and AnnTaylor, as well as high-end brands like Louis Vuitton, Hermes, Gucci and Prada.
But three months ahead of the new season's first chukkas, Guards, like other upscale polo clubs, is looking far beyond its manicured lawns.
Sales grew steadily but unspectacularly until five years ago or so, when Ferrand hired some young business school grads to peddle cognac across the country, using charity events, in-home tastings and high-profile sponsorships like the Houston Polo Club to target affluent consumers.
Unlike ChoicePoint, retail businesses like DSW and Ralph Lauren Polo don't trade in sensitive information like Social Security numbers.
The spectacle of Chinese turbo-capitalism is inspiring Marco Polo-like awe in some Western commentators.
For polo, like pro-am golf and yacht racing, money and commitment can guarantee top-level participation.
But here's a tantalizing question: What would happen if the NFL unleashed its players on Olympic events like table tennis, water polo and artistic gymnastics?
Then the big boys with global licences arrive: Lego to make construction kits (build your own Hogwarts castle), Mattel to make Harry Potter toys, and Electronic Arts computer games including, finally, a chance to play the obscure game of Quidditch (a bit like an aerial version of polo, but with the contestants flying on broomsticks).
Elephant polo, played primarily in countries like India, Nepal and Thailand, follows similar rules as the traditional sport, though the pitch (or field) is a bit smaller, players wield longer mallets made from cane or bamboo and two people ride the elephant: the player and the mahout who steers the animal.
Ideas around our office ranged from Ben-Hur-like chariot races with blade-studded wheels to Segway polo to, more mundanely, Segway lawn mowing.
Just like him, it was very well coordinated, the plain polo's with patterned shoulders to match the pants looked particularly good.
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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