Word: plushly
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What's the solution? Li & Fung is moving up the food chain, becoming a brand-managing powerhouse. This year it is on track to sell more than $200 million of licensed goods like Levi's Red Tab and Signature tops and Disney plush toys--a business many analysts expect to grow to $1 billion by 2007. In August it paid $124 million for the U.S.-based Briefly Stated, which produces pajamas, underwear and T shirts for such diverse brands as Professional Bull Riders Inc. and Catwoman. Eradicating the middleman role for some products could open up other opportunities...
...Once the plane was at cruising altitude I spent the first hour or so just getting used to the surroundings--exploring the stand-up bar Singapore Airlines created at the back of the coach section, ducking into one of the two windowed rest rooms or longing for the plush seats in business class...
Sinking into a plush armchair, Mounir Khélifa glances around the lobby of a luxury Tunis hotel and chuckles at the transformation he has seen in his lifetime. "Imagine: I come from a small village," says Khélifa, whose father raised 15 children on the proceeds of his olive grove, and sent all 10 sons to school. Khélifa went on to earn a Ph.D. in literature at Yale, and at 55, teaches the poetry of Wordsworth and Milton at Manouba University in Tunis. Khélifa may sound extraordinary. But in Tunisia, he says, "mine...
...currency, with its virtually worthless hundred-dollar bill, is too small for you. Just look at the newly re-ghettofied Jay-Z. The video for his “Blue Magic,” the first single off his upcoming album, juxtaposes the gritty streets of Harlem against a plush world more akin to Jigga’s own, replete with champagne bottles, Rolls Royces, 500-Euro banknotes, and yes, even some bling! More prominent than the bling and the foreign currency is the crack. Not to say there’s anything wrong with a little cook...
...things from boutiques, like when they have overstock.” The store marks down all items to one third the original retail price—and customers often get lucky with finds such as 75-dollar Manolo Blahniks or discounted Lilly Pulitzer dresses, sparkly Nicole Miller gowns, and plush Burberry coats. MK would approve...