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Stores can tailor private collections to their particular types of customers, from trend-happy adolescents to conservative executives. The fastest-growing brand of sportswear in the U.S. is The Limited chain's Outback Red, which sold more than $400 million last year. It began as a collection of Australian-inspired bush-country wear, and now features tamer English staples like jodhpurs and cable-knit sweaters. At Macy's, which sells an estimated 50 house brands, the Aeropostale line evokes the garb of 1920s French mail-plane pilots. The collection includes white silk scarves and rugged corduroy trousers. Macy's also...
...retailers opt for manufacturing in Asia ! to take advantage of low wages. The Limited can probably claim the industry's most streamlined distribution network. Within ten weeks, 700,000 garments for a new line can be woven, cut, sewn, flown from Hong Kong and placed on racks in the chain's 751 stores across...
Many designers are competing by opening their own chains of stores. Ralph Lauren opened a Manhattan Polo emporium in 1986; he now operates 68 stores across the country. Liz Claiborne this year launched a new store chain known as First Issue. The designer plans to have 13 outlets in business by January...
...winning on his first try for elective office, Kohl had the state's sports fans on his side. After selling his family's supermarket and department-store chain in the '70s, he bought the Milwaukee Bucks basketball team in 1985 to keep it in the city. Kohl is expected to be tough on the Pentagon, since he urges a 10% cut in defense spending, but he shuns a liberal label, noting his experience as a businessman. He joins a growing club of Senate millionaires, including Pennsylvania's John Heinz, New Jersey's Frank Lautenberg and Ohio's Howard Metzenbaum...
Wolf experts have long known that a pack has a social structure, but Mech and Brandenburg got to observe it intimately. The pack is led by a dominant, "alpha," male and female, and every other wolf knows its place in the chain of command. Much of wolf home life is focused on teaching the pups to be competitive, while at the same time schooling them in the social graces of the hierarchy...