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...The discount clothing chains TJX and Ross Stores reported strong same-store sales and good margin performance in the third quarter. Their consumer is just fine....
...Gap Inc is currently in crisis. Its brands — Old Navy, Gap, Athleta and Banana Republic — face weak or falling sales and the business is lossmaking....
...For groceries, the family‑run Atkinsons’ has loads of goodies – the next generation of Atkinsons went to school with my daughters....
...Jay Winthrop, a principal at Douglass Winthrop Advisors, noted that it had an “unusual collection of shareholders and it tilts heavily to individuals and families”....
...This article has been updated to clarify that Higg Inc has rebranded as Worldly, not the Higg Index as incorrectly stated in a previous version. ...
...The family business, a clothing store in Amurrio, was vandalised and set on fire several times. “Instead of keeping quiet, we went to the press every time we were attacked....
...family’s investments in EssilorLuxottica, Mediobanca and Generali....
...But many families haven’t blinked, he says. “There’s still a lot of wealth out there.”...
...Patagonia’s billionaire founder is handing the outdoor clothing company to a trust that will use future profits to battle the climate crisis....
...That has affected clothing retailers in particular, with department store Nordstrom shares falling more than 13 per cent on Tuesday after it said it had seen “significantly” lower demand from its lowest-income...
...“We’re a family, both reliant and independent. Pace is Marc’s; I own 125 Newbury,” Glimcher says....
...He said he raised the capital after pitching the idea to people in his orbit and friends and family, but would not elaborate. DD wonders whether the idea set out in the letter would have worked....
...There’s one of its Neighborhood Market shops a block away, an outdoor clothing outlet in the other direction and a giant Supercenter just across Walton Boulevard....
...She started her career in fashion as a store manager for the now defunct US clothing chain Metropark....
...He stressed the importance of sensitivity to families and personal needs, and, crucially, made clear that his own and, more important, his employees’ wellbeing was paramount....
...The most recent hoodie release in January arrived with the collaboration’s first commercial, a dark and dystopian music video that had bore little connection to Gap’s history of family-friendly marketing...
...Families plan to spend a record $37.1bn on school-age children, up from $33.9bn in 2020, according to a survey last month from the National Retail Federation....
...I can’t help remembering all the exercise detritus my family has accumulated over the years, from blocks for step aerobics to adjustable weights to the cross-trainer turned clothes rack....
...One popular VTuber, Projekt Melody, supplements her family-friendly YouTube streams with sexually explicit content on adult video platform Chaturbate....
...With owners increasingly treating their pet dogs as one of the family, John Lewis reports dog coat sales are up 420 per cent year on year, with dog jumper sales up 2,200 per cent....
...The old mall is not returning, even if more families move out of cities — it was too big and bland....
...A version of this article was first published by Nikkei Asia on October 14 2020. ©2020 Nikkei Inc....
...Coty needs look no further than Gap to see how powerful a partnership with the family can be....
...Many rivals were forced to close, such as Burlington Stores, a discount clothing retailer that also released results on Thursday....
...Started as Melvin Simon & Associates in Indianapolis in 1960, the company was central to a national building boom as families flocked to the suburbs....
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