Word: retailer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...retail industry beset by sluggish sales, Dayton Hudson has been a - star performer. Profits of the Minneapolis-based company, whose 666 stores include Dayton's, Hudson's, Mervyn's and the Target discount chain, rose 43% last year, to a record $410 million. In its boldest expansion yet, the company said last week it would acquire Chicago-based Marshall Field's, a premier retailer, for $1.04 billion from London's B.A.T. Industries. B.A.T., which is battling a takeover attempt by Sir James Goldsmith, will use proceeds from the sale to buy back part of its stock...
...Body Shop takes its creams and lotions from nature, but nature doesn't suffer. Anita Roddick, founder of the 14-year-old British cosmetic company, makes sure of that. She runs the manufacturing and retail firm (which has branches in 37 countries) as a paradigm of planet-friendly practices...
...retail record store will rise phoenix-like from the ashes of the soon to be demolished Cherry, Webb & Touraine building at 38 Brattle St., developers of the project said yesterday...
...currently operates two large stores in New York City, but the Brattle St. outlet would be its first entry into the Boston market. Calano said that record company will move into the new building upon is expected completion 18 months from now. It will be the Square's ninth retail record outlet...
...death was not unusual in the close-knit fashion industry. Broadway and Hollywood may have organized to combat the disease that is decimating their ranks, but the couture business -- increasingly nervous about its image with consumers and investors, and struggling to find a new direction in a sluggish retail market -- remains nearly silent about the disease that is carrying off some of its most famous names in their creative prime...