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...They are so popular through so many other outlets that everything dovetails," says retail analyst Heather Brilliant at Morningstar. "And while Wal-Mart could be considered lower quality, the Olsen twins have established a brand separation that allows them to avoid the Wal-Mart impact." Within six months, stores in Japan, Germany, Israel and probably Korea will carry their lines. In the U.S., the teen lines are expanding with more sophisticated styling. Freestanding mary-kateandashley stores are being considered for Los Angeles and New York City, where the girls will be attending New York University. "Our goal is to keep...
...describe Lauder. With her patrician good looks, the 33-year-old granddaughter of company founder Estee Lauder has long been a regular in the society and fashion pages. "Aerin will always be the outward face of Estee Lauder, showing you what the brand means," says William Schmitz, an analyst at Deutsche Bank who covers the cosmetics industry...
Henrik Schultz, chief analyst at Danske Equities, praises the way H&M has handled its international expansion and says the key silhouette he sees in the future is the dog bone: bulging growth for less expensive fashion like H&M's at one end and for luxury apparel at the other end but thinning prospects for brands priced in the middle...
Last week's bombing, says Lilia Shevtsova, a top analyst at the Carnegie Moscow Center, "ruins the Putin image of the President in control and on top of things." While Putin is still poised to win a landslide re-election next month--his approval ratings are around 80%--the mood of those who turn out to vote for him may prove to be more fatalistic than triumphant. Just after last Friday's blast, Oksana Petrova, 32, shrugged when a reporter asked her if she was now afraid of taking the metro. "Of course, I'm scared," she said. "But what...
...player, Cingular (which upped its bid last week), Vodafone would be buying a firm that's losing market share. The bid deadline was Friday, but no one would confirm a Vodafone offer; some say AT&T's 22 million customers come at too high a price. ABN Amro analyst Jamie Mariani calls the merger idea "nonsense,'' arguing that the $35 billion price tag, plus $8 billion in AT&T debt, would obliterate any benefits. And to make a deal Vodafone would have to wriggle out of its noncompete accord with Verizon, the U.S. leader, by agreeing to dump...