Word: guess
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Slick and sexy, Guess?, Inc.'s long-cultivated image began turning seedy last summer. First, five contractors for the $500 million clothing empire were cited by California inspectors for illegal home-sewing operations. Then a class-action suit accused Guess and 16 subcontractors of paying their mostly immigrant workers less than minimum wage. Ornery picket lines spread from Guess's shop on Beverly Hills' Rodeo Drive to its 66 other retail outlets across the country. And in a final one-two punch, the National Labor Relations Board forced the firm to rehire employees it had fired for union sympathizing, while...
Last week, however, the jeans giant, known for its advertising "attitude," turned surly. Stunning its critics, Guess revealed that in the past year--just as it was fending off an organizing campaign by UNITE, the nation's largest garmentworkers' union--the company was quietly shifting about 40% of its manufacturing to Mexico and South America...
Only three years ago Guess was making 97% of its garments in the U.S. But Guess president Paul Marciano--one of four immigrant French brothers who founded the company in 1981--claims the job exports have nothing to do with the UNITE campaign. In the early 1990s, charging $60 to $70 per pair, Guess was the top designer-jeans merchant. In the past two years, high-end labels such as Calvin Klein, Tommy Hilfiger and Ralph Lauren--many of them manufactured abroad--moved aggressively into denim, pricing their jeans at $48. Guess sales plunged, and Marciano says...
...YORK: After a year in the wings, Donnie Baseball made his retirement official Wednesday. "I guess I wasn't willing to pay the price to be successful," Mattingly told reporters at a farewell news conference at Yankee Stadium. "At that point I knew it was time to step away." A six-time All-Star and a nine-time Gold Glove first baseman, Mattingly hit .307 in his career with 222 home runs and 1,099 RBIs. He was the AL MVP in 1985, and later became only the 10th player to be named captain of the Yankees. His hiatus last...
...expected, but when we arrived at the park, it was surprisingly busy. Walking down Main Street U.S.A., one felt transported to a small town of America's past, only this one was much, much more crowded. "Disneyland, Population 300,000,000" a suspicious sign read. Was this a ballpark guess of how many people squeeze inside the park each day? Or a cryptic suggestion of how Michael Eisner intended to consume the entire country into his corporate structure? It was far from clear...