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...sales to $4.1 billion), family-run Gallo has the industry's top research and marketing staff and has become legendary for seizing on consumer trends--whether they were jug wines in the '70s, Bartles & Jaymes wine coolers in the '80s or development of new premium wines like Gallo of Sonoma ($10 to $65 a bottle) in the '90s. Since 1996, Gallo has quietly launched foreign ventures, most notably Black Swan, produced with Australia's Brian McGuigan winery. The brand sold 1.2 million cases last year, second in Aussie wines only to Casella Wines' Yellow Tail...
DIED. DALE MESSICK, 98, one of the first female comic-strip artists, who in 1940 introduced readers to Brenda Starr, Reporter, an intrepid, curvy and impeccably clad journalist who talked her way into exotic assignments, dated hunks and abided no nonsense from her editor; in Sonoma County, Calif. Though criticized by some for being unrealistic ("Authenticity is something I always try to avoid," said Messick), her spy-chasing, shark-battling redhead inspired legions of young women headed for professional careers...
...preppy, from Ice Storm--style needlepoint pillows to Palm Beach pink and green. Adler is bringing his obsession--and his clean, graphic 1950s-inspired style--to festive fir trees and mantelpieces around America in a new collection of holiday ornaments and decorative accessories designed for Hold Everything, the Williams-Sonoma--owned home-accessories resource. "It's a modern take on Christmas, with lots of groovy geometry and improbable interpretations of traditional holiday colors. Instead of red and forest green, we did pink and lime," says Adler. The Hold Everything line includes needlepoint ornaments, left, stockings, felt gift bags and colorful...
...felt that whole market was underserved," says Dave DeMattei, president of emerging brands at Williams-Sonoma. "It was time to explode out of the kitchen and out of the bed-and-bath department." (Williams-Sonoma Home will replace the Chambers catalog, also owned by the Williams-Sonoma company...
...idea is for the product to feel like found objects," says Stephen Brady, senior vice president of design at Williams-Sonoma. "Like you've traveled to Europe and found things in the flea market and brought them home with you." That old-world feeling shows up in everything from custom upholstered down-filled sofas ($3,000) to hand-embroidered Italian linens ($60-$495). Best sellers so far include a crystal-block lamp (about $295) and fringed cashmere throws in colors like cayenne, chocolate and sage (about $295). Customers can also log on to a partial ecatalog and order custom upholstery...