Howard Davidowitz
Howard Davidowitz
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The name of the game for Ben and Jerry's is to get someone to taste the product. If this promotion can get more customers in the doors, there's a reasonable chance that many of them may return later (when they charge full price).
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The most important people who have to be motivated are the store employees; they're your life blood. Federated knows this.
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There would have been gigantic costs associated with the unbundling process given that the different units share warehouse and distribution centers,
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This is an era in which corporations want to be lily white because corporate governance is on the front burner.
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Retailers are going to promote like gangbusters from the first minute, and it's going to affect margins. I think at best it's going to be fair.
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You can see clearly how the terror attacks have affected the American psyche. People are staying more at home, spending more time with the family and eating out at restaurants. At the same time, anecdotal evidence shows that sales of products such as flashlights, candles, first-aid kits has boomed.
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Steve is very familiar with taking properties like that and making them profitable.
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Back-to-school has been very soft and therefore prices are coming down. The discount signs are already being made. Both Wal-Mart and Target have had anemic growth over the summer. The only sector that has done well is luxury.
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The growth of lifestyle centers is absolutely tied to the strong performance of the luxury sector.
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Investors beware, this could be a shot in the dark for White House,
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The business is getting smaller -- the advertising, the TV, the magazine -- everything is going down. This company is not going to go away tomorrow. However, the losses are getting scary.
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Specialty apparel is a very fast-moving business. It's also a fickle business of fashion and creativity where the winners are those retailers who can constantly reinvent themselves and their products.
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The company's only chance to move to a new chapter is to have a roadmap of everything that's going to happen with Martha, ... The company is set up for her to come back. The question is, what role should she come back in?
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If you are able to build a few stores that are successful and bring in a couple of million dollars each, the department stores will come to you and you can make a deal.