Retail Features
SA: Watching TV - And Waiting
NEW YORK -- With competition heating up in the television shopping arena, networks are beating a path to designer showrooms, hoping to pluck some stars from the fashion firmament.
Joining QVC and Home Shopping Network this year will be TV...
— Jan 18, 1994
W&L Files For Bankruptcy
NEW YORK -- Woodward & Lothrop, one of the last over-leveraged retailers to remain outside the bankruptcy courts, finally succumbed to its debt load and entered Chapter 11 proceedings Monday.
This confirms reports in these columns on Jan....
— Jan 18, 1994
Spiegel, Time Warner Show Off Sample of Their Video Sales Venture, Catalog 1
NEW YORK -- The film starts with a model cavorting on the beach in a bathing suit, then cuts to a studio with a host and two fashion experts.
One expert talks about the Moroccan influence on swimwear and shows a clip of a couture runway show....
— Jan 18, 1994
CHH Will Boost Private Label to 25% of Women's Inventory
NEW YORK -- Carter Hawley Hale Stores Inc. will build private label to 25 percent of its women's apparel inventory this year, as the retailer seeks to "take back the reins of control from the vendor community."
That was the message from David...
— Jan 18, 1994
Cardin Adds Auchan Hypermarkets to His Outlets
PARIS -- Pierre Cardin, who shocked the French beauty industry last year by expanding distribution of his prestige fragrances and cosmetics to the Carrefour hypermarket chain, is making another foray into the mass market.
He signed a deal last...
— Jan 14, 1994
W&L Says it Has Heard Rumors it's Filing Ch. 11
WASHINGTON -- Woodward & Lothrop said in a statement Thursday that it has heard reports of an impending Chapter 11 filing before, but the company did not deny the possibility it was about to make such a filing.
As reported here Thursday,...
— Jan 14, 1994
Eyeing Retailers, HSN to Launch TV Shopping Mall
NEW YORK -- Home Shopping Network, the St. Petersburg, Fla.-based electronic retailer, is diversifying.
This summer, the company will introduce a new network called Television Shopping Mall. The "mall" will have room for 35 individual...
— Jan 14, 1994
