Word: retailing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...powerful part of management within the industry. Jeffrey Harris, economics professor at M.I.T., estimates the industry spends $5 billion a year on advertising and wide-ranging promotions. Those budgets will shrink. But some venues, like point-of-sale displays, are still viable. Tobacco companies could open cigarette-only retail outlets for adults and pretty much do anything they liked inside...
...latest step in a process that began developing nearly two decades ago. As far back as the 1970s, independent producers started selling power to utilities; a 1992 federal law required utilities to open their lines free of charge to such wholesalers. The growing wholesale competition created a demand for retail freedom of choice...
...last fall released a disc called Barbie Fashion Designer that was a runaway best seller, proving once and for all that if the pitch is right, the girls will play. "There's always been an interest in marketing for girls," says Suzanne Groatman, children's software buyer for the retail giant CompUSA. "Barbie just exploded the market. People are looking at this year as the time to launch on the coattails of that traffic...
America's oldest University is one of the few examples of stability in one of the fastest changing--and most exclusive--retail enclaves in the northeast...
What's Victoria's real secret? well, possibly that some of those frilly unmentionables ogled in catalogues and purchased from pink boutiques may be illegally imported from China. That's the allegation being leveled at the Limited, the retail giant that controls Victoria's Secret, as well as at Lane Bryant, Structure, Express and Abercrombie & Fitch. In a civil fraud case recently unsealed in Los Angeles, the U.S. textile industry, which includes manufacturers such as Springs Industries, claims it has revealing evidence that the Limited knowingly purchased reams of Chinese apparel mislabeled to indicate that it was manufactured in Hong...