Word: mettler
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...shrink your way to greatness," he is fond of saying. Sears has gained 10 million sq. ft. of selling space, mainly for apparel, in areas reclaimed from storage rooms and furniture departments that migrated to their own stores. To stock the shelves, new merchandising chief Robert Mettler, recruited from Robinson's, brought in popular national brands such as Champion, Arrow and B.U.M. and launched fashionable Sears-designed garments (imagine!) such as the Canyon River Blues and Crossroads casual wear lines. To unsnarl their flow through Sears' supply lines, Martinez hired his own three-star general, William ("Gus") Pagonis, who headed...
Pagonis got Mettler's new brands in the back door just as customers, lured by the "Softer Side" ads, were marching through the front. "It was actually nip and tuck," says Martinez. "We took a big risk, and customers absolutely loved it." That fairly describes Martinez's feelings about his job. "I'm having more fun than any adult should be allowed to have," he says...
Workers in the laboratories, which are used by chemistry students for graduate and post-graduate research, discovered that the Mettler PC 2000 loading scale was missing on Monday morning May 8, according to police...