Word: retail
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...edge. Mepro manufactures Epilady, a device that employs a rotating coil to grasp unwanted hair and pull it out at the root, leaving skin smooth for weeks. Introduced in 1986, Epilady (price for the basic model: $50) has already become a major Israeli export, with this year's worldwide retail sales expected to top $200 million. But the company faces competition from Smooth and Silky, a similar device launched this year by Remington Products...
...consumers enjoy a day in the country and engage in a venerable American dream -- the inalienable right to pursue the deep discount. Says Charles Bloom, a Flemington-based developer who has put together six profitable factory-to-you outlet villages in the U.S.: "This is the wave of the retail future...
...coats it made there.The outlet became an East Coast shopping mecca. These days it sells a $10,500 mink coat for a mere $7,895. Furs were not enough to save Flemington. In the mid-1970s, when the town was losing business to shopping malls, and its retail space could be rented cheaply, the Dansk kitchenware firm opened a factory outlet, hoping to capitalize on the fur company's cachet. By 1982, Bloom, 63, a New Jersey accountant who had wandered into real estate, had transformed a cluster of artisans' shops in Flemington into an 88-store outlet complex called...
...executive at Manhattan's Harry Winston jewelers confirms that Mrs. Reagan has continued to borrow expensive accessories, even though there had been some White House embarrassment in 1981 at disclosures that Winston had given her a | diamond necklace and diamond earrings for the first Inaugural Ball. At retail, the combination would be worth about $480,000. "At times Mrs. Reagan has borrowed items," this source says. "She has worn on other occasions -- but not in America -- a pair of diamond earrings that are $800,000 with ten-carat drops...
...dramatic growth (sales up 35% this year, and our first retail stores to open in '89) requires special recruitment efforts this year. Positions are available in Systems Design. Marketing and Finance. We also have openings in our Merchandising and Catalog Design departments...