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...George Zimmer bounces briskly into the conference hall of a swank California resort tucked among wooded hills with a view of Monterey Bay. The stage is decorated with headless mannequins dressed in suits and sports shirts. There's a clothes dryer, with which an executive has just demonstrated the wrinkle-free quality of a new line of shirts. But the main act is Zimmer, founder and CEO of the Men's Wearhouse, also known as the bearded pitchman with the cornball delivery who ends every commercial for his stores with his signature line, "I guarantee it!," pronounced like a carnival...
...Zimmer doesn't care if he's cheesy, because since he opened his first store in Houston 30 years ago, Men's Wearhouse has become the largest men's clothing retailer in the U.S., a $1 billion company with 507 locations. It has outlasted dozens of competitors and survived casual Fridays and a slump in suit sales to show surprising growth this year. Now Zimmer plans to make Men's Wearhouse a $5 billion company that also sells sports clothes and designer wear, rents tuxedos and operates dry cleaners...
...Zimmer takes the stage before an audience of assistant store managers in their 20s and more seasoned store execs, he rattles off the usual list of company accomplishments--the stock had zoomed from $11.95 in January to $27 by August--and generates considerable applause. Then Zimmer veers off in a direction that would make many shareholders squirm, as he explains his unorthodox business philosophy. "You know, at some point we can't pay you enough money to make you want to go to work," Zimmer says, his voice getting quiet. "That's why we have a different feeling...
...real problem is that Veeck's attitude didn't trickle down to the young, boring, serious team with its radio-face manager, Alan Trammell. Unlike the 1962 Mets, who had "Choo Choo" Coleman and "Don" Zimmer, the Tigers don't have one player with a decent nickname. Trammell refuses to talk about the Mets' record 120 losses, telling a TIME reporter much gutsier than I am, "I'm not going to answer that question." Not that the reporter was brave for asking Trammell but for sitting through the entire game...
...real problem is that Veeck's attitude didn't trickle down to the young, boring, serious team with its radio-face manager, Alan Trammell. Unlike the 1962 Mets, who had "Choo Choo" Coleman and "Don" Zimmer, the Tigers don't have one player with a decent nickname. Trammell refuses to talk about the Mets' record 120 losses, telling a TIME reporter much gutsier than I am, "I'm not going to answer that question." Not that the reporter was brave for asking Trammell but for sitting through the entire game...