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Conspicuous consumption, that signature vice of the 1980s, was rarely more evident than at the 17 toy stores of Manhattan-based F.A.O. Schwarz, where toddlers of the rich and famous could acquire an 8-ft. stuffed giraffe ($4,500) or a child-size Jaguar sedan ($6,000). Now the 128-year-old retailer has joined still another trend: foreign ownership. A Dutch department-store conglomerate, Koninklijke Bijenkorf Beheer (KBB), has agreed to buy the toy retailer from the Morse-Harris Group, owners since 1985. Estimated price: $40 million. Once America's top toy merchant, Schwarz was - losing customers...
...Ghita Schwarz '90 is an editorial editor of The Crimson...
...price estimated at more than $100 million. The investors then sold the chain, without the real estate, to two accountants, Anthony Conti and Philip Semprevivo, who quickly cut costs and revived the store's merchandising by turning over some departments to savvy outside retailers like toy seller F.A.O. Schwarz. After losing $17 million in 1985, Altman's earned a $3.5 million profit the following year...
...Black and White bulldozed past SCSU, recording three tries by Schwarz, two from Silvera, and one from Andrea Eror. Mary Christ and Silvera combined to score a try, as well as Karen Berman, Mary Moon and Silvera...
...game against the Bears, Eliza Schwarz and Cherie Silvera scored two tries to give Radcliffe its first shutout...