Howard Davidowitz
Howard Davidowitz
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Specialty apparel is a very fast-moving business. It's also a fickle business of fashion and creativity where the winners are those retailers who can constantly reinvent themselves and their products.
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He really knows the shopping center business from the ground up,
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You see the guy out on the street selling coffee, donuts, fruit - his business is destroyed. There are a lot of small businesses that will close or that won't be able to pay their bills next year because of the strike.
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The jewel that Federated would want is the Marshall Field's flagship State Street store in Chicago.
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I've heard that the Chris Madden line's pulling powerful comparable sales growth for the past six to seven months. This is a category that exploding for Penney and it's also helping boost their monthly sales higher,
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The company has remodeled its stores several times and is also trying to sell its credit business . But when the smoke clears, it's anyone's guess as to how many more years Sears can go on like this.
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The company's only chance to move to a new chapter is to have a roadmap of everything that's going to happen with Martha, ... The company is set up for her to come back. The question is, what role should she come back in?
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The energy cost in the equation is grossly underestimated, ... The consumer is already stretched to the limit and doesn't have an extra $1,000 to pay if the home bill goes up.
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The guy that drops by the wayside becomes history, and theoretically he'll be replaced by new concepts in urban clothing and shoes. New concepts are popping up and they are popping up like mad -- as fast as they have ever come if not faster, and they'll want to grow rapidly.
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The growth of lifestyle centers is absolutely tied to the strong performance of the luxury sector.
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You will still see 50 percent off on merchandise but maybe not 70 to 80 percent off.
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The margins are positive, but sales are eroding,
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This is moving the deck chairs on the Titanic.
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You can see clearly how the terror attacks have affected the American psyche. People are staying more at home, spending more time with the family and eating out at restaurants. At the same time, anecdotal evidence shows that sales of products such as flashlights, candles, first-aid kits has boomed.