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...then, is Michael Forrest, New York furrier, doing $745,000 worth of business during his annual, invitation only, sale to private customers? The reasons offered by the crowd of fiercely concentrating women pirouetting before the mirrors at the end of the showroom sound unconvincing: "It will cost more next year." "I can wear it to the grocery store." "It's young-looking." Also, "sporty" and "basic." (Down coats, by contrast, were rejected because they "make me look like my daughter...
...year, someone was busy trying to improve the house take on liquor sales. The federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms charges that between May 1978 and July 1979, 16,000 bottles of liquor were refilled with cheaper booze; not only that, but unmixed drinks served in the Ziegfeld showroom were recycled. Any liquor left untouched after patrons had ogled the floor show went back into the bottle for the next customer. Some of the drinks wound up with more mileage on them than the hoofers in the chorus line. Last week MGM paid $125,000 to settle the charges...
Easy sex notwithstanding, more Americans than ever are opting for the traditional walk down the aisle. Still, there are many who want to make the Big Day more a spectacle than a ritual. To wit. Bride Annie Bowman who went topless in a Las Vegas showroom called the Jolly Trolley along with a kick line of 25 topless dancers doubling as bridesmaids. A Chicago disco was the setting for a Jewish ceremony with a fog machine filling the room with smoke at the very moment the couple broke the glasses. This week seven couples will tie the knot in front...
...stalwarts among the Carlson groups accounted for almost half of last year's billion-dollar-plus sales. One of them, the catalogue showroom retailing operations, which grossed $216 million, embraces brand-name discount chains that require little in the way of display space, sales help and security personnel because customers order merchandise from catalogues. Thus the companies can undercut many of the big low-price chains like K mart. The other, the Carlson Premium Group, which last year got one-third of its $250 million revenues from Gold Bond Stamps, organizes incentive programs for companies that reward high-achieving...
This year Germany's 110 U.S. car dealers expect to sell about 20,000 imports from America, more than in the previous eight years all together. Auto-Becker of Düsseldorf, the country's largest U.S. dealer, is spending $6 million to expand its showroom and hopes to sell 2,000 cars, up from 850 in 1978 and only 250 in 1977. "It is the In thing to own an American-made car now," explains Helmut Becker, sales manager for the firm. Adds Peter Baumgarten, a GM salesman in Munich: "West German prosperity has increased the size...