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William A. Klopman, 52, was not the betting favorite to become president of Burling ton Industries; his abrasive personality had made him unpopular with some other executives of the world's largest textile company (annual sales: $2 billion). Nonetheless, Klopman, then head of the apparel-fabrics division, was chosen last April over three other executive vice presidents, largely because he had been running a segment of Burlington that was generating a hearty share of the company's earnings. Indeed, Klopman, a tall, lantern-jawed New Yorker who had helped his father run a family company that Burlington bought...
...boss, Klopman has been following the same strategy; among other things, he has been pushing the company's hosiery division to move faster in following a marketing swing out of department stores and into supermarkets and drugstores. In his first quarter as president, ended last June, Burlington posted profits of $27.5 million, about 20% above the same period last year. But the success has brought little harmony in the executive suite; with in a single week this summer, two executive vice presidents, Raymond E. Kassar and George L. Staff, abruptly resigned. Some 20 lesser executives have left or been...
...Klopman, a secretive executive who rarely gives interviews, will not discuss the departures. Few in the industry doubt his ability; the chief question about his presidency is whether he can put together and hold a strong management team...
...BETH KLOPMAN...
...really immaterial . . . but . . . it was I who brought about the separation between Irene Adler and the late King of Bohemia . . . It was I also who saved from murder, by the Nihilist Klopman, Count von und zu Grafenstein...
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