Word: penney
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...film, Columbia has made sure there will be new editions of the some 40 that are in print now -- as well as character dolls of the Concord girls, period clothing from Lanz, antique-style jewelry at J.C. Penney and baskets of scented products from Crabtree & Evelyn. The Alcotts would be in awe of every item. They had few possessions, and their diet consisted mostly of the "aspiring" vegetables -- grown aboveground -- that papa Bronson approved...
...admissible on the principle that it represented a heartfelt rejection of the mainstream. The mainstream was understood to be all-powerful and wrong about everything: politics, art, religion, sex, drugs and music. It was deaf to the beat, blind to the truth and dressed by Penney...
Ethnic-minority shoppers, predominantly African Americans, Hispanics and Asians, spent $600 billion on everything from toothpaste to shoes to cars last year, up 18% since 1990. By the year 2000, minorities may account for 30% of the economy. Major corporations like Pepsico, K Mart and J.C. Penney are going all out to win over free-spending ethnic consumers, recruiting minority marketing experts who speak each group's language and know their customs. "This is the era of ethnic marketing," says Gary Berman, president of Market Segment Research, a consumer specialist in Coral Gables, Florida. "Mass marketing worked when America...
...Mexico's moderate economic growth (2%) has also been spurred by an enterprising though less elaborate campaign to entice firms. Among the prize catches, mostly in the Albuquerque area, are companies ranging from a Hawk missile facility and an Olympus camera plant to a J.C. Penney telemarketing center. The state, which has a budget surplus of $100 million, can afford to offer generous tax incentives, and it assiduously cuts red tape. When Great American Stock relocated to Rio Rancho two months ago, it obtained a building permit in 11 days at a cost of $2,200; a comparable permit...
Commerce Secretary-designate Ronald Brown was all set to be the guest of honor at a lavish Kennedy Center gala for which a group of corporations were reportedly asked to ante up $10,000 apiece. Among them were Anheuser-Busch, J.C. Penney and PepsiCo. Brown apparently failed to see any prospective conflict of interest, until the press and Clinton himself thought otherwise. Brown canceled...