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Consumers tend to be less price sensitive when buying health and beauty products and less attracted to private-label store brands than when they're shopping for, say, dishwashing liquid. And with many beauty products, "people are always willing to try something new," says Marc Pritchard, vice president of P&G's suddenly hot cosmetics division. Its Cover Girl and Max Factor lines are enjoying banner sales with the introduction of their Outlast and Lipfinity long-lasting lipsticks. Of course, the success of cosmetics and other beauty products depends much more on fashion and sex appeal than do sales...
...Rossi by the end of the year. Armani has announced a joint venture with four shoemakers. And Marzotto, the new owner of Valentino, has promised that Val will get his own accessories plant too. All this activity in the name of corporate control, and MADE IN ITALY on the label. Polo doesn't own a factory, doesn't make a single shirt or dress itself. "Owning a factory is a two-edged sword," says CEO Farah. "It works great on the way up. No one yet understands how it works on the way down." In other words, although Farah says...
...stores in Manchester, Glasgow and Antwerp, as well as in London and Paris. To start, the company will focus on just half of Lauren's many offerings, including the top-of-the-line collections for men and women, children's wear, men's sportswear and Ralph Lauren Blue Label, a new women's casual line that will make its debut this September. What won't be coming are the lowest of the Lauren lines--Chaps and Lauren--those produced by licensees...
...Chicks called in Maines' dad, steel-guitar legend Lloyd Maines, to produce the tracks, and then, just to push Sony to DefCon 1, they shopped the material to other record companies. "We came very close to signing with another label," says Maguire with a sly grin. "I think that's when they realized, 'These girls are serious.'" Sure enough, Sony and the Dixie Chicks announced a new agreement in July. No one will talk details, but the Chicks now record under their own Sony subsidiary, Wide Open Records, and it is widely believed they received a $20 million signing advance...
Other independent groups are emerging to certify that companies' boasts about particular products are true. "It's getting more and more complicated to 'greenwash,'" says Reid Lifset, a faculty member at the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies. The Environmental Protection Agency's "Energy Star" label for efficient consumer appliances is the best-known program. Beyond that, Green-e, based in San Francisco, certifies energy that comes from such renewable sources as sun or wind, while Green Seal, of Washington, blesses various consumer products from air conditioners to paper towels...