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...Della Valle, Tod's has become a household name with sales of some $319 million. With that sort of pedigree, how can Fay fail? The brand's first dedicated store, designed by the architect Philip Johnson, will open this week on Milan's tony Via Spiga. Sagra de Rosen, retail analyst for J.P. Morgan, describes Fay as "the Italian Burberry," due to its origins in outerwear. The first coats are thought to have been made for fishermen in the U.S. state of Maine in the 1960s by a Mr. Fay. Della Valle bought the company in the mid-1980s. Sales...
...Board of Zoning Appeal’s meeting, whose purpose was to discuss requests for unusual signage and permission to have a retail restaurant on the site, numerous residents turned out to voice their views...
...wheel of an Audi so stuffed with boxes of what appeared to be Microsoft Office 97 Professional software that the car was barely drivable. Sensing counterfeit, police took both driver and 4,000 copies of one of the world's most popular business programs - worth $2 million on the retail market, according to Microsoft - into custody. Murray-Cowan, a British businessman and would-be politician who ran for local office in Suffolk in 1999, was already wanted there for jumping bail on 12 charges of infringing the trademark on Microsoft Windows. Police are weighing fresh charges in Germany against...
...piracy official who works for the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry. But all too often, software providers say, pirates get off too easily. In March of 1998, Danish police conducted a raid against a piracy ring which had produced 125,000 cd-roms containing counterfeited software with a retail value of $237 million. Yet the pirates got off with suspended sentences and small fines. "They were back in business within a few months," says Beth Scott, vice president of BSA's European branch . The bsa and other industry groups are calling on governments to institute tougher and consistent sanctions...
...full array of banking and investing services. Users can open a checking or brokerage account, pay household bills, apply for home-equity loans, even get car-insurance quotes. In another twist, the site has built a bricks-and-mortar presence, opening personal-service locations in dozens of SuperTarget retail stores...