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...customers as far away as Japan. "I'm making triple my old salary, and I only have to work when I want to," says Sommers. That kind of flexibility was one of the key selling points for Rolando and Lisa Anzardo, longtime New Jersey antiques dealers, who closed their retail store, moved to the sun and surf of Florida and established a virtual trading post. For a year now, they've been hawking their wares exclusively on eBay, shipping about 75 items a month, ranging in price from $100 to $2,000. "At the store, you [often] wouldn't make...
...universe of DKNY, DVF and other acronym wear, however, an independent spirit is quietly thriving. Indeed, the future of American dress seems secure on the sketchpads of a few young Manhattan designers, all of whom have gained a following without the benefit of big corporate backers, eponymous SoHo-based retail monuments or advertising campaigns...
William Calvert, 29, has made an even quicker trip to important retail venues. Just two years ago, Calvert, who refined his tailoring skills at the fabled Parisian houses of Balmain and Balenciaga, decided to make six sample dresses in New York. Barney's and Bergdorf Goodman placed orders, and suddenly he was in business...
...months. The average PC sold for $1,600 in 1997; it now sells for about $950. The fastest-growing segment of the industry is the sub-$600 market, where you'll find companies like eMachines and Microworkz. The subgroup currently accounts for 20% of PCs sold at retail, according to the market-research firm PC Data. Ultracheap prices have earned eMachines, in business for just six months, fourth place in retail desktop market share, less than a point behind...
...such items. Universities authorize licensees such as Champion or Starter to produce clothing, and those licensees in turn contract with shirt or hat factories who do the actual manufacturing. The licensees pay us a royalty (usually less than 10 percent of the wholesale price, which is about half the retail price) for each item. But universities are not in the business of making or selling the clothing itself, and so we have customarily known Ettle about how the clothing is actually made...