Friday, January 12
Economy 2001: Glass Half-full or Half-empty?
Economic analysts’ first forecasts for the new year are generally bearish, with Morgan Stanley Dean Witter’s influential chief economist even releasing a report entitled “Recess...
International: Jan. 12, 2001
British retailers fared well for holiday. Same-store sales were up 3.4 percent in December over the same month last year, according to a just-released report from the British Retail Consortiu...
December 2001 Retail Sales Grinched
December wasn’t an outright disaster for most retailers, but for those closing stores and pink slipping employees, and even for those who are accustomed to the bountiful bottom lines of the ’90s, i...
Beverly Boulevard, Beverly Hills
There’s a three-block shopping area on Beverly Boulevard (south of Wilshire Boulevard) in Beverly Hills, Calif., that is gaining retail momentum....
Zambrano to Head Denim Division at Bebe Studio in L.A.
Monah Li has company at Bebe’s design studio in the Cooper Building in downtown Los Angeles. Bebe Stores Inc. has hired Ruben Zambrano as senior d...
FBI Teams with Stitches Technology
The Fashion Business Incubator (FBI) and Stitches Technology, two Los Angeles-based not-for-profit associations, have announced an alliance to assist two separate sectors of the loca...
Roxy Echo Makes Auto Show Debut
Roxy, the Huntington Beach, Calif.-based girls surf label owned by Quiksilver, teamed with Seventeen magazine and Toyota Motor Sales, USA...
Fashion Companies Try New Alternatives to Traditional Marketing
How does a retailer cut through the visual cacophony of Las Vegas to drive traffic to its stores? That was the challenge for Jonathan Paul, creative director for Bisou Bisou. The Los Angeles-based contemporary manufacturer ...
PJ Salvage Kicks Off Retailer Valentine's Day Contest
Costa Mesa, Calif.-based sleepwear manufacturer PJ Salvage has kicked off its second annual Valentine’s Day promotion with its retailers. To enter, stores must mail the manufacturer photographs of in...
Movers: Jan. 12, 2001
Mark S. Askanas has been named general counsel and sen...
California: Jan. 12, 2001
Joe Boxer Corp., the San Francisco-based underwear label, has been ordered to pay East Brunswick, NJ-based Van Mar Inc., its former licensee, nearly $3.16...
New Faces in Design at North Face
San Leandro, Calif.-based The North Face announced the appointment of four new designers in the company’s research design and development department....
Cyberspace: Jan. 12, 2001
Bricks-and-clicks e-tailers, those with real-world stores as well as Web sites, dominated the Nielsen/NetRatings list of top holiday-seas...
National: Jan. 12, 2001
Sears, Roebuck & Co. is closing 89 stores, affecting approximately 2,400 employees, after posting a 1.1 percent year-to-year drop in December same-store sales; the ...
KJLA-TV Spotlights Local Latin Designers
A new television program featuring Latin music and Los Angeles design talent is in the works for a local television station....
Friday, January 5
Dyers, Finishers to Join Natural Gas Lawsuit
Members of the Association of Textile Dyers, Printers and Finishers (ATDPF), a Los Angeles-based trade organization, unanimously decided to join a class action lawsuit filed against transporters of n...
Bankruptcies at Bradlees, Ward Resonate in Retail
A dismal holiday season for U.S. retail, perhaps the worst in more than a decade, ended with Chicago-based Montgomery Ward Inc. and Braintree, Mass.-based Bradlees Inc., two retail c...
California: Jan. 5, 2001
San Francisco-based strategy consulting firm Swander Pace & Company, which specializes in the food, beverage and consumer packaged-goods industries, has merged with Kurt Salmon A...
International: Jan. 5, 2001
Bentonville, Ark.-based Wal-Mart Stores Inc. is forming a Japanese subsidiary and will open its first store in Japan a...
Ginger Takes a Second Bow
Ginger is all that is naughty and nice, with just the right touch of spice. Or so says Terry Weaver, the president of this newly revamped junior label....
Dorlastan Unveils L.A. Area Office, New Ad Campaign
The fibers group of Charleston, S.C.-based Bayer Corporation’s fibers, additives and rubber division has opened a West Coast office in Brea, Calif., under the direction of marketing manager Ma...
Ace Ross Studios to Rep Oboe, Seraph
Ace Ross signed an agreement on New Year’s Eve to be the exclusive sales representative for junior contemporary lines Oboe and Seraph, according to Ross, who recently founde...
National: Jan. 5, 2001
Fall River, Mass.-based Globe Manufacturing Corp., the manufacturer of Glospan and Cleerspan spandex, was forced into an involuntary bankruptcy proceeding by three ...
Fed Acts as Economic Warning Signs Mount
The Federal Reserve, the central bank of the United States, has cut thekey overnight bank rate by half a percentage point, lowering itto 6.0. The surprise move to lower the interest on overnight loans that banks make ...
Cyberspace: Jan. 5, 2001
More than 41,000 employees were laid off or dismissed by Internet companies in 2000, according to Challenger Gray & Christmas, a Chicago-based outplacement firm, with most of the...
