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...suit. "When celebrities come out with their own products--Rocky Graziano's spaghetti sauce, Mickey Mantle's barbecue sauce, Nolan Ryan's All-Star Fruit Snacks, Gloria Vanderbilt's salad dressing, Reggie Jackson's candy bar, Carl Yastrzemski's Big Yaz Bread, Diane von Furstenberg's facial tissue, Bill Blass's chocolates, Richard Simmons's Salad Spray, Tommy Lasorda's spaghetti sauce, Yves St. Laurent's cigarettes, Frank Sinatra's neckties--all examples of products these famous people promoted with unsatisfactory results. There's never been a real celebrity success in the food business. We estimate the total start...
DIED. ELEANOR LAMBERT, 100, a.k.a. the Empress of Seventh Avenue, who as a publicist championed American fashion designers such as Bill Blass and Halston; in New York City. In the early 1940s, when Paris was deemed the industry's sole center, she organized press previews in New York, a precursor to Fashion Week; established the International Best-Dressed List; and nudged reluctant magazine editors to cover American designers. In 1962 she founded the Council of Fashion Designers of America...
Foster's Group of Australia bought Napa-based Beringer Blass Wine Estates in 2000 for $1.5 billion, and for the first time last year, the quintessential global beer company sold more wine ($1.04 billion) than beer ($931.9 million). Allied Domecq of Britain, which already owned Clos du Bois in Napa as well as wineries in Argentina and New Zealand, last September paid $275 million for Spain's largest wine producer, Bodegas y Bebidas...
...trend is starting to appear outside the U.S., although somewhat unevenly. Europe has been slow to shed centuries of vineyard traditions, but the New World producers, especially the Australians, have been expanding aggressively. Four companies--Southcorp Wines, B.R.L. Hardy, Orlando Wyndham (owned since 1989 by Pernod Ricard) and Beringer Blass Wine Estates (Foster's)--now account for 74% of the wine exported from Down Under, according to Macquarie Resource Equities...
...Lands' End says customers who use IM are 70% more likely to buy than those who browse the website without using IM or who call an 800 number with questions. And customer questions on IM can be tracked to help the company improve its products and services. Says Bill Blass, a Lands' End senior vice president, "It's like having a huge focus group." According to Forrester Research, based in Cambridge, Mass., the number of online shoppers who prefer to use IM for customer service jumped to 9% in 2001, up from...