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...“Investments gravitate towards either banana republics, where grey areas and corruption abound, or modern, well-regulated countries....
...I did that with three companies – Old Navy, Gap and Banana Republic... But it was never like what J Crew became or what I think we’re going to be here.”...
...“It’s kind of like a banana republic,” says one Facebook staffer involved....
...The 55-year-old Gap veteran joined only two years ago after a stint struggling to turn around the retailer’s Banana Republic chain....
...Nordstrom opened its long-awaited flagship store in New York City last week, as its crosstown rival sludged through bankruptcy proceedings....
...Pico Iyer Discovery: Everybody knows about Napa, which is why I took myself this August to the county right next door, Sonoma, no less verdant and even more seasoned in the wine-producing business....
...Anne Simpson, head of corporate governance at Calpers, the California public employees’ pension fund, rightly called these arrangements the corporate governance equivalent of a banana republic....
...Roger Lee, chief executive of TAL, a Hong Kong-based company which produces clothes for brands such as Banana Republic, says despite the unrest, he would not be reversing the decision to open a factory in...
...It is closing 175 stores, leaving 800 in North America, and shedding head office staff as it seeks to to focus more closely on higher-growth areas such as e-commerce, factory outlet stores and international...
...Half a year later, it is clear that Vladimir Putin has no intention of annexing it, as he did with Crimea....
...The trackers also include many of the institutions that are supposed to be on our side, such as the government and the companies with which we do business....
...But in some ways it is only catching up with its rivals, particularly Spain’s Inditex with its nine brands, and Gap of the US with five brands including Banana Republic and Old Navy....
...At Albrooks, a cavernous shopping mall on the outskirts of Panama City, frantic tradesmen and stylists are adding the finishing touches to two flagship Gap and Banana Republic stores ahead of a grand opening...
...BAE Systems produces enough high-tech weaponry to overwhelm a confederacy of banana republics....
...And it has, becoming one of the world’s fastest reformers, rising to 66th out of 178 countries in the World Bank’s ease of doing business rankings....
...It makes 55m garments a year for brands such as Banana Republic, Burberry, Calvin Klein, DKNY, Tommy Hilfiger and many more. So how is TAL tackling sustainability issues?...
...The cutting and sewing is done in Lesotho, a nation surrounded by South Africa and, in a continent of republics, inevitably referred to as the “mountain kingdom”....
...much higher wage levels.In some Jamaican state-owned factories, costs are as high as 40 cents per lb, about five times the world price....
...No doubt, the white families heading out to suburbia and leaving African Americans behind in the city are doing so on purpose....
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