Importers Scramble for Quotas as 2005 Deadline Approaches
Next year, American apparel and textile manufacturers will have a harder time importing as many goods from China as they did this year...
From Russia With Love
Port investigates transshipping claims on goods from Russia ...
Health Care for All?
While state legislators are trying to work out the details of getting more health insurance coverage for California workers, apparel-industry executives and small-business owners are wondering how muc...
California Resort Show Launches in Long Beach
Producers of the first annual California Resortwear Show in Long Beach, Calif., won high marks from vendors. But those marks weren’t for luring hordes of buyers to the show, held Aug. 19...
Off-Price and Online: Internet Is an Outlet for Discounters
When Steve Mazur encountered a lull in his income last year while waiting for his sales commissions to kick in, he hit on an idea that is now netting him $7,000 a month....
Gambling on MAGIC
Small companies weigh the costs—and potential rewards—of attending the giant Las Vegas trade show...
Hollywood & Highland Cranks Up Efforts to Boost Traffic, Sales
Summer has been kind to the Hollywood & Highland complex, the troubled shopping and entertainment center in Los Angeles whose value has plummeted $400 million since it opened in November ...
Learning New Customs
Importers prepare for customs’ new security rules ...
Efforts to Forestall Rising Workers' Comp Costs Begin
In the last three years, Janet Wells has seen workers’ compensation insurance premiums grow fourfold at her mid-size company....
Mid-Year Review: California Expected to Follow Nation Out of Economic Slump
Is it time to break out the party balloons and celebrate a turnaround in the economy?...
Action Girl Bows With High Energy, Mixed Reviews
Athletic action was everywhere at the first Action Girl Sports show, held July 17–19 at the Long Beach Convention Center in Long Beach, Calif....
Hong Kong Fashion Week Opens With Curtailed Business Following SARS Epidemic
The World Health Organization lifted the travel restrictions to Hong Kong two weeks before the opening of Hong Kong Fashion Week—but despite just a slight drop in attendance, exhibito...
Frederick's of Hollywood: New Products, New Image, and an Eye on China
Frederick’s of Hollywood has been on a diet....
U.S. Cotton Growers to Bush: Keep Farm Subsidies in Place
California cotton farmers don’t really cotton to the idea of government farm subsidies being lifted. But African farmers do...
New Junior Lines on the Roster for Action Girl Launch
Girls rule....
California Companies Named in Import Smuggling Complaint
The U.S. Attorney’s office has accused three Southern California companies of smuggling apparel destined for Mexico into the United States....
Laundry Chooses Beverly Center for First L.A. Flagship
Laundry by Shelli Segal is expanding into the retail business. The Southern California label, owned by New York–based Liz Claiborne Inc., has opened its first store in Los Angeles....
Making It in Japan
The Japanese retail market isn’t an impossible dream...
Companies Cautiously Plan Return to Asia
Now that the World Health Organization (WHO) has lifted the ban on travel to Hong Kong and southern China, apparel companies are deciding what to do....
Incentives Available for Downtown L.A. Businesses
American Apparel is doing it. Guess? is doing it. And many more apparel companies could be doing it if they tried....
Puente Hills, Del Amo Malls Sold
Investors out shopping for shopping malls have swept up two major retail centers in the Los Angeles area....
S.F. Retail Worker Sues Chico's Over Sales-Floor Dress Policy
Upscale retailer Chico’s FAS Inc., a purveyor of casual and career women’s clothing, is the latest company to be sued for allegedly requiring its salespeople to buy and wear the company’s clothi...
First Quarter Report: Mixed Signals Cloud California Forecast
Southern California’s economy is playing the waiting game....
CBI Sourcing Show Attendees Hoping for New Trade Deal in 2004
GUATEMALA CITY—The buzz among Central American apparel and textile manufacturers these days centers on one thing: the hope that a new free-trade agreement will be in place with the United States next y...
Local Importers, Manufacturers Brace for Shipping-Rate Hikes
The news coming out of Asia these days isn’t great for apparel importers...
Pending Calif. Legislation
Insurance for all, but at a steep cost to small businesses ...
SARS Scare: Local Companies Putting Off Trips Overseas
John Inn, head of juniorswear company Bubblegum USA, is no stranger to Hong Kong....
Buyers Navigate Multiple Venues, Shows at L.A. Market
Buyers had a lot of ground to cover during the April 2–8 run of Los Angeles Market Week....
Security and Technology Top Bill at AAFA Conference in Long Beach
Apparel and footwear manufacturers at the International Sourcing, Customs, Logistics Integration Conference—held March 27–28 in Long Beach, Calif.—were assured that if the coun...
International Designers Compete for Coveted China Cup
SHANGHAI, China—Fashion judges jetted in from all over the world—from London, Paris, New York and Los Angeles— to determine whom the winners would be in the China Cup, an...
L.A. Gift Show: Strong Turnout, Cautious Buying
Everyone muttered the same mantra at the Los Angeles Gift & Home Accessories Market: conservative, conservative, conservative....
Attention Shanghai Shoppers
ShanghaiMart’s management team tackles marketing and re-merchandising ...
Agents of Change
In the weeks leading up to the Academy Awards presentation, the Celestine Agency in Santa Monica, Calif., was abuzz with busy people getting ready for the event. With a stable of hairstylist...
Manhattan Village Gets a Beach-Themed Makeover
Overstuffed rattan chairs and couches fill the corridors. Light streams in through an overhead skylight in the central court. The interior colors are light and bright....
New 24-Hour Rule Delays Shipments Into California
Customs broker Lorie Adams has become almost deaf in one ear from fielding calls from irate customers who are not receiving their imported goods on time....
High Leases on Santa Monica's Third Street Promenade Open
Retail leases on the Third Street Promenade in Santa Monica, Calif., are hitting an all-time high as big-name chain stores compete for space on the three-block-long pedestrian mall....
Rodeo Drive Revamp Includes quot;Walk of Stylequot;
Even Rodeo Drive, the ritziest shopping street in Beverly Hills, Calif., needs a cosmetic make-over from time to time. And the high-fashion thoroughfare is about to get one....
MAGIC, Satellite Shows Weather East Coast Delays, Cautious Buying
Las Vegas was busy as buyers traveled between seven apparel trade shows held in five venues during the recent run of MAGIC International and concurrent satellite shows....
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