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...steam over the past year. Talbots' same-store sales were down 13.9% in the third quarter of 2008, and the chain lost $14.8 million during that time. "They look dead in the water," says Howard Davidowitz, chairman of Davidowitz & Associates, a retail-consulting and investment-banking firm...
...finally launched its own sales site in May (the brand had partnered with Amazon to move books before then). During the 2008 holidays, Borders.com delivered 2.4% of total sales. Comparatively, Barnes & Noble's site regularly delivers 10% of total sales, says Michael Norris, a publishing-industry analyst for research firm Simba Information...
...share. Mattel last year won a copyright-infringement case against Bratz owner MGA Entertainment, but that didn't change the fact that, over the past five years, Mattel's domestic sales of Barbie-related products have fallen by an average of 12% annually, according to estimates from investment-banking firm Needham & Co. At age 50, Barbie is clearly in need of a midlife makeover. Says M.G. Lord, author of Forever Barbie: The Unauthorized Biography of a Real Doll: "What kids want is a toy that shocks, and that toy is no longer Barbie...
...family property in southern Punjab to learn the business and try, if he could, to keep the land from slipping out of the family's hands. Seven years later, he returned to the States--this time for law school and a stint at a New York City firm--but after a few years, the farm, and a desire to write its stories, called him back. (See the top 10 fiction books...
...jatropha varieties being cloned in the city of Mysore. The fuel emits negligible greenhouse gases, and the trees can capture four tons of carbon dioxide per acre (which might make growers eligible for carbon credits on the global market). Says Ron Pernick, co-founder of the alternative-energy research firm Clean Edge: "Jatropha isn't a silver bullet, but it looks very promising...