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From Ralph Lauren's Polo Shop to Nevada Bob's Golf and Tennis, from Dansk Kitchenware to Hanes Underwear, every store that has a factory unleashes its slightly-defective merchandise on Kittery...
...became an East Coast shopping mecca. These days it sells a $10,500 mink coat for a mere $7,895. Furs were not enough to save Flemington. In the mid-1970s, when the town was losing business to shopping malls, and its retail space could be rented cheaply, the Dansk kitchenware firm opened a factory outlet, hoping to capitalize on the fur company's cachet. By 1982, Bloom, 63, a New Jersey accountant who had wandered into real estate, had transformed a cluster of artisans' shops in Flemington into an 88-store outlet complex called Liberty Village. Much...
...opened a factory outlet which sells at drastic discounts. Hathaway shirts, Bass shoes--and its competitors Dexter and Timberland--also have joined the crowd. Even London Fog raincoats can be bought in this once-sleepy village. For those interested in kitchenware or furniture, there are Corning Designs and Dansk...
...quintessential Danish master is the founder of Dansk, Jens Quistgaard, 55, who still does the original designs for products that are now turned out in factories from Sweden to Japan. He regards the designer's job as one of almost Rousseau-like simplicity. "I believe that as much of nature as possible should be brought into your nest," says Quistgaard. "You should have as much around you as you can to remind you of good craftsmanship...
...tinkerer who started out in a small basement shop 16 years ago, Lyngsø credits the gadget with cutting down the proliferation of meetings that have come with the growth of his own firm, Søren T. Lyngsø, Dansk Servo Teknik, to two plants and 160 employees. He finds that the machine starts saving money even before conferences start: nowadays his managers whenever possible skip calling meetings rather than watch the machine add up the cost...