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Through much of his business life, Jarman has moved with a single-minded purpose-to build a company that could clothe men, women and children from head to toe. and become the General Motors of the apparel industry...
...Purpose. Genesco was stitched together by Chairman Walton Maxey Jarman, 58, an introspective Baptist deacon whose favorite pastime is rereading the works of Thomas Mann. Impatient with the faults of others, Jarman also harbors a nagging concern that he may not understand himself, once took a battery of company psychological tests under an assumed name. The psychologists' verdict: Jarman was too shy and self-conscious ever to deal successfully with people, and would be a failure in management...
...Basic to Jarman's plan was integration of the new companies to provide the economies of size and to put him in closer touch with changing consumer tastes. Today Genesco relies heavily on its retail outlets to alert its manufacturing divisions to new buying trends. The company's divisions also keep in close touch, and a successful new shoe design by the high-priced Johnston & Murphy line can be quickly copied by Genesco's lower-priced lines. Nonetheless. Jarman insists that each division retain its own distinctive personality, and that division managers have wide autonomy. Says...
...they felt that Christianity needed a new nondenominational magazine, not-so liberal as the old and prestigious Christian Century (circ. 37,500). Bell organized a committee of clerical sponsors, raised the capital funds from a number of millionaire Protestant laymen, including Oilman J. Howard Pew and Chairman Maxey Jarman of GENESCO, Inc., who still make up most of the magazine's annual $225,000 deficit. To edit the new magazine Graham's committee chose Baptist Professor Carl Henry, 49, of Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena. He agreed to take on the job for a year "to get things...
...accessories department and served as sportswear editor. In 1954 she moved to General Shoe's newly acquired I. Miller as fashion coordinator of the wholesale branch, next year was hired as general manager and vice president of Miller's retail operations by General Shoe Chairman W. Maxey Jarman, who was convinced that fashion rather than comfort sold women's shoes. Jerry Stutz showed such a fine eye for fashion that shoe sales rose 20%; she became one of industry's highest-paid women, at an estimated $40,000 a year...