Word: goodmans
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...year detour in China. She was 19 when she decided to join her elder sister Fiona, then a menswear designer, at a Canadian company called Ports International. The company had its heyday in the '70s and early '80s when its clothes were carried by stores like Bergdorf Goodman. But by 1989 the brand had lost some of its stature and was purchased by Alfred Chan, a Canadian entrepreneur who was born near Xiamen and raised in Hong Kong. Chan married Fiona and made the unlikely decision to move the company's operations to Xiamen and relaunch the brand to cater...
...DECEMBER 2003, Robert Burke, then fashion director of Bergdorf Goodman, was in Paris giving a talk on the booming business of fur accessories when he looked around the ballroom at the Hotel George V and noticed that a quarter of the seats were filled with men in business suits. During dinner and coffee breaks at the two-day luxury conference, the suits from places like Bear, Stearns cornered Burke and bombarded him with questions about luxury businesses?which ones had potential to add secondary lines and which ones could expand with worldwide licensing...
...that the Internet is poaching from regional titles, Associated's morning Metro boasts advertising growth just shy of 10%. "We're bucking the trend," Auckland says. With the same aim, thelondonpaper is striving to accommodate advertisers. Expect circular ads smack in the middle of an editorial page, says Steve Goodman, managing director of print trading at London media buying firm GroupM. Goodman does worry that the evening crowd is getting thick and that London Lite could damage its corporate brethren. Two evening giveaways means the Standard is "obviously going to be losing some circulation," he says. But that...
...Gilbey committed the lèse majesté of referring to Her Royal Highness as "Squidgy" in a bugged phone conversation, the British royal family has again fallen victim to a wiretapping scandal. Last week, London's Metropolitan Police [an error occurred while processing this directive] arrested journalist Clive Goodman, chief royal correspondent at Britain's largest Sunday tabloid, the News of the World (NOTW), for allegedly obtaining private information by hacking into mobile-phone voice-mail messages of top aides of Prince Charles. The Scoop: Why the arrest? According to Scotland Yard, Goodman's nine alleged offenses include conspiracy...
...internal process is moving along.”‘A MORAL DUTY’Administrators are propelling the science buildings through the Boston zoning process with particular urgency, due to demands from scientists contending with federal restrictions on research and inadequate lab space.Professor of Astronomy Alyssa A. Goodman says she has seen professors from universities like Caltech decline offers of tenure from Harvard, citing the lack of space.Harvard’s plans for art in Allston, like those for science, also face internal pressures that are spurring on development. With the Fogg undergoing its first renovations...