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Walking into the Eddie Rodriguez store in Miami's Dadeland mall feels like stepping into 1950s Havana. That's because Cuban-born Rodriguez, a former president and creative director of Wilke-Rodriguez menswear, is tapping into the current craze for Latin-inspired fashion with a new lifestyle label produced in association with the Men's Wearhouse. His stores (there are six in the U.S.) sell casual clothing for men and women in their 30s and 40s and are designed to evoke pre-Castro Cuba, complete with carved wood and bamboo details, salsa music and free Cuban coffee. Customers can browse...
...jokingly call it "Brazil's fastest growing city." Last year they were so ubiquitous that Portuguese became the predominant language among shopkeepers in downtown Miami. This year it is the Argentines who have arrived in droves. "At any cocktail party in South America, if you mention Aventura or Dadeland, they know you're talking major shopping malls in Miami," says economist Manuel Lasaga, a Cuba-born immigrant...
...million after New York's Chemical Bank launched its Pronto service, for example, only 21,000 of its 1.15 million customers are using it. And even as new banks come on-line, a handful (including San Francisco's Crocker National, Los Angeles' First Interstate and Miami's Dadeland Bank) have quietly discontinued their electronic services. "It's slow going," admits Paul Ayres, a vice president at Columbus' Huntington National. "It's one of those products customers aren't beating down our doors and demanding...
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