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Manhattan Transfer. Last week the Brenninkmeyers were well on their way to gaining control of the cash-and-carry Ohrbach's chain ("A business in millions, a profit in pennies"), which has sales of some $75 million from five low-markup clothing "supermarkets" in Manhattan, Newark, Long Island and greater Los Angeles. The Brenninkmeyers bought an interest of roughly 47% in the chain last year, have an agreement to buy the remaining shares from Founder and Chairman Nathan Ohrbach when he decides to retire; Ohr-bach is vigorous and determined to stay on, but he is also 77. Fortnight...
...OHRBACH Tel Aviv, Israel
...done most of the dragon slaying. Its agents are pushing a clever little booklet called Een Handige Budget-Baedeker. To potential travelers the Budget-Baedeker gives helpful tips on where to find bargains in New York-Woolworth's, Klein's on Union Square, Masters discount house, and Ohrbach's ("copies of haute couture"}-and how to get by adequately on $12 to $13 a day. It suggests that tourists eat as Americans do-at drugstores, Howard Johnson's ("excellent soup of mussels,'' i.e., clam chowder), Chock Full O' Nuts ("that super-American...
With personal income at an alltime high, holiday spending was heavy. In Manhattan last week, Bonwit Teller's, Ohrbach's and Macy's all rang up one-day sales records. In Detroit, Christmas sales were up some 3% over record last year. At week's end most merchants were still too busy totting up sales slips to know just how merry a Christmas...
...Ohrbach's, whose Paris copies are big sellers in its Manhattan, Newark and Los Angeles stores, this year has recruited nearly 40 dress manufacturers to produce "line for line" copies of 75 styles from most of the major Paris designers; prices will range from $50 (for daytime dresses) to $200 (for coats). In turn, Seventh Avenue will copy the copyists, produce $10 versions of Dior originals for the housewife in Pocatello...