Word: buyer
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...junior buyer at Foley's Department Stores in Houston in 1968, Wachner would spend her downtime patrolling the streets to spot trends. Early in her career, she revolutionized the lingerie business by merchandising bras on racks rather than hiding them in boxes. In the 15 years since she won Warnaco in a hostile buyout, Wachner has used that aggressive style to remake the dowdy $600 million manufacturer of women's undergarments into a $2.5 billion apparel powerhouse, owner of a stylish collection of brand licenses that includes Calvin Klein, Speedo and Chaps by Ralph Lauren. All that hard work helped...
...corps waited for the trial to begin, Klein tried to recapture his license, claiming that Wachner was destroying his jeans brand, skimping on quality and flooding the discount bins at merchandise clubs. Of course, Klein didn't seem to have any such complaints until he had trouble finding a buyer--including negotiating with Warnaco--for his suddenly unfashionable company. Warnaco, in its view, was simply responding to market forces, as more consumers continued to bypass department stores and their not-so-exclusive brands. Warehouse clubs are the only thriving retail sector, with an increasingly upscale clientele that's hard...
Before Rudenstine’s arrival, the University bid for 52 acres in Allston under a different name. The actual deal went through under his tenure, and when word leaked out that the buyer was Harvard, town-gown relations, already tenuous, spiraled downward. Rudenstine, in retrospect, readily admits his mistake...
...took GE perfectly positioned into the 21st century," Brokaw says. "My heart kind of sank when I heard GE was buying NBC and I always thought of it as a home appliance manufacturer, a buyer of big products and turbines. It's now this company that does everything from capital [to] entertainment...
...that can accommodate a phone, computer, audio speakers and webcam. You can access the Net or listen to your stereo from anywhere in the house. Sarah Bailey, Laing's sales and marketing director, says the wiring ensures the house "can be upgraded to any level of wiredness that the buyer desires...