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...many parents, plain old dungarees will not do. At Annelise Plehn's Just So boutique in Washington, D.C., for example, some customers are willing to spend $483 for a pink silk taffeta party dress for eight-year-olds. Comments Stuart Robbins, a retail analyst with the Donaldson Lufkin & Jenrette investment firm: "Children's apparel and accessories are now a fashion business, not the commodity business they were when the baby-boom generation was growing...
...less than 4% from 1979 to 1984, while the rest of the industry was setting a 10% to 12% pace. Earnings slipped sharply during the quarter ending in June, falling to $77 million from $111 million a year earlier. Says William Leach, an analyst with Wall Street's Donaldson Lufkin & Jenrette: "General Foods just seems to have an inability to bring success down to the bottom line. A company like Sara Lee, which has a much weaker market position and fewer glamorous products, is turning out consistently more impressive earnings year after year...
...Corpus Christi, Texas 78415; The Henry Luce Foundation, Inc., 111 West 50th Street, New York, New York 10020; *Midwest Securities Trust Company, 440 S. LaSalle Street, Chicago, Illinois 60605; *Pacific Securities Depository Trust Company Incorporated, Box 7877, San Francisco, California 94120; TLL Temple Foundation, 109 Temple Blvd., Lufkin, Texas...
Some companies, though, continue to produce reports elegant enough to grace the finest coffee tables. The Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette investment firm, whose profits jumped 32% last year, issued a 64-page document filled with pictures of historical artifacts and featuring a painting of Alexander Hamilton on the cover. But Wisconsin Securities, a Milwaukee investment firm, went one better. Along with its 30-page report, the company sent each of its 235 shareholders a 10-oz. can of ginger cookies made by one of the companies in which it has invested...
...holiday season has been helping to boost investors' spirits. "There has been a rally of sorts every year at this time since World War II," notes LeFevre. Optimistic observers like Eric Miller, chief investment officer for Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette, are now predicting that the current upswing will push the Dow average far above 1300 and even past 1400 by the middle of the coming year. But the market's normal orneriness provides a note of warning. In 1966, the Dow hit 995. It did not close at over 1000 for nearly seven years...