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...brand in all fashiondom. Lauren, born Ralph Lifshitz in the Bronx, conceived a vision of Waspy splendor and preppie elegance and then had the all-American gumption to go out and live that dream and project it in sepia tones around the world. He once sold his wares store to store in a bomber jacket and jeans, and leveraged a line of wide neckties into a wider life-style empire with annual revenues of $1.47 billion and profits of $120 million. Until this year, Polo/RL sported growth rates a technology firm would envy...
...Lauren says his difficulties are onetime events caused by a new inventory system and delays in opening some new flagship stores. The company's inventory bloated 36% last year because it lost track of sales. As a result, Polo/RL had to take huge markdowns that will be a drag on profits into this year. The company says its wholesale business--the amount of goods shipped--is still up 14% and that department-store sales are strong...
...that, it's a cinch to find literally hundreds of thousands of sites on the Internet that offer illegal copies of the latest shoot-'em-ups--for free. "With just a few keystrokes, you can have a game that's just as good as what you buy in the store," laments IDSA president Doug Lowenstein. "It's certainly damaging to the health of the industry...
Among its many problems, the Galleria had no high-end anchor store, like Nordstrom or Neiman Marcus; its two largest tenants, Robinsons and May department stores, merged and got into a messy legal dispute with the mall. Then there was the mall's odd design, which made it difficult to even know how to get into the place. Maybe most important, there were three better malls within 10 miles...
...your children's favorite writers and characters--or choose a place you want to visit and prepare for the trip by reading the authors who set their stories there. "When you go to the places that stories are about or that are associated with authors, it adds to your store of memories or images about them," says Leonard S. Marcus, children's-book critic for Parenting magazine...