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...Vecchio pounced, eventually netting the company for $225 million. Out went the fused sports coats, denim pants and two-ply made-in-Mexico sweaters. In came the $2,000 suits, Loro Piana cashmeres and alligator-skin handbags. Mark-down sales became something that happened only twice a year. And brand-education classes?covering everything from company history to the way a sweater is made?were instituted for managers and salesclerks alike...
...66th-ranked player in the class of 2008.The players are attracted to Amaker’s style of play—a departure from that of former head coach Frank Sullivan—which incorporates a more-up-and-down, fast-paced, “high-octane” brand of basketball. “We want to play a style...where we move up and down the floor a little faster, have more possessions,” Amaker says. “I think kids like to play that way—I know I used to like...
...consumer-products giants like Procter & Gamble (P&G) and Johnson & Johnson (J&J) snap to attention. After all, these devices have the potential to snare a sizable chunk of the estimated $24 billion that Americans spend to rejuvenate their faces and remove unwanted hair. Seeing synergies with its Neutrogena brand, J&J jumped into self-dermatology in 2004, signing an exploratory multiyear licensing deal with the $120 million company Palomar Medical Technologies to develop, test and commercialize light-based aesthetic devices that can treat wrinkles, cellulite and acne. "We have the potential to penetrate a good part of that market...
...Borse Dubai chief Essa Kazim, the new arrangement gives Dubai access to even more expertise and global investors than it would have received in a partnership with OMX alone. "We felt we can complement each other," Kazim says. "NASDAQ can continue to expand in Europe. We needed a brand and technology to facilitate the attraction of more companies. It was a win-win situation...
...filling stadiums, Feist is getting covered in Rolling Stone, and everyone’s talking about Canada like it was an undiscovered frontier. Born Ruffians, as the most recent imports, are a decent enough band, holding their own with their fellow countrymen. The group’s callow brand of backyard pop is infectiously happy, almost to a fault. Once Of Montreal (not actually from Canada, mind you) quits the scene, the Born Ruffians are sure to do quite well. Bouncing and yelping in their latest video, “Hummingbird,” the fresh-faced bandmates...