Word: conran
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Shirley Conran...
...Conran's taste proved so popular that by 1977 Habitat had grown into a chain of 32 stores in Britain, France and Belgium. That same year, a confident Conran opened his first shop in the U.S., but the British-made goods did not always fit the new market. The tumblers and wineglasses were too small, the beds needed to be enlarged, and customers thought the toast racks were letter holders. Conran eventually worked out the kinks, and his U.S. stores made $4 million in profits last year...
...Conran bought Mothercare, a group of some 400 stores worldwide. Priscilla and Sebastian shook the dowdiness out of the Mothercare line, emphasizing colorful clothes made of natural fibers. "We wanted to get rid of that cynical attitude among mass-market retailers who say, 'Oh, these people don't have any taste, why bother,' " explains Conran. "People can only buy what they're offered, so their taste is made by what they're offered...
...industrial design. Located in the dockland area of London, the four-story building will be finished in 1989. Sir Terence is already planning the exhibits, but do not look for roomfuls of extravagant furniture or wacky-looking appliances. Expect the sort of simple, utilitarian pieces that have helped make Conran a household name -- and have helped make the Conran household a dynasty of design...
With a furniture, housewares and clothing empire on both sides of the Atlantic, Britain' s designing Conran family is a real- life dynasty...