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...stores, fewer Americans are likely to leave the couch and hit the mall with the same kind of alacrity and determination they have in years past. "Black Friday is going to be a gray Friday," says Marshal Cohen, chief retail analyst at the NPD Group, a market research firm in Port Washington, New York...
...many people are feeling the pinch from the continuing credit crunch, including higher mortgage costs and the depreciation in home values. "Consumers have the highest debt they have ever had with 24 months of negative savings," says Howard Davidowitz, chairman of Davidowitz & Associates Inc., a national retail-consulting firm. "They can't use their homes as piggy banks anymore...
Denham Capital Management announced late last week that the firm has invested in Recycled Energy Development (RED), an Illinois-based energy recovery company that is developing a new form of recyclable energy that could vastly reduce carbon emissions in factories...
Riaz Siddiqi, a senior managing director at Denham, said the firm invested in RED because of Casten’s life-long commitment to his field and his ability to win over industrial purchasers...
...years. The street also faces growing competition, both from cheap Asian knockoffs and from expensive made-to-measure suits by luxury brands such as Tom Ford and Giorgio Armani. "But now, at least, we're fighting back," says Anda Rowland, vice chairman of the venerable tailoring firm of Anderson & Sheppard. And, according to the industry's 14-member association, Savile Row Bespoke, it's seeing signs of success...