BNET Industries
Last Fiscal Year Sales:$1.2B
- Private
- US
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President & COO
Brian BlakeNumber of Employees 4,131
Contact Information
1350 Ave of the Americas
New York, New York 10019-4702
(212) 707-6500
Peer Companies
NAICS Code Men's Clothing Stores: 448110
Recent Events
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Burberry profit falls 24%, but dividend lifted
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Burberry gets a boost
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Slumming it in couture at London Fashion Week
News & Analysis
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GUS gives investors details of Burberry demerger
- 2005-11-18
GUS, the UK retail and services group, finally unveiled details of its long-anticipated demerger of the fashion company Burberry yesterday. Shareholders will receive 305 Burberry shares and 859 new GUS shares next month for every 1,000 old ones they own. The move, which is...
Burberry sale starts GUS break-up with Argos to follow
- 2005-05-26
The fate of GUS was sealed yesterday after the conglomerate unveiled plans to demerge its remaining majority stake in Burberry and sever Argos Retail Group from Experian, its financial services business. Although the former Great Universal Stores group promised to hand its 66 per cent stake in...
OUTLOOK: GUS joins the fashion for focus in doing the splits, but is
- 2005-05-26
For a world which is meant to have fallen out of love with conglomerates, and instead requires managements to 'focus' on their 'core competences', it is interesting to reflect on the fact that the world's biggest company by market capitalisation, and one of its most successful to boot, GE of...
British retailer GUS to demerge Burberry group
- 2005-05-25
LONDON AFP — British retail group GUS announced it planned to demerge its 66 percent stake in luxury goods group Burberry later this year to existing shareholders, alongside news of steady annual profits. The company also disclosed its intention to separate the retail division, which includes catalogue retailer Argos...
OUTLOOK: Is no one immune as Argos stumbles?
- 2005-04-15
Another chief executive under pressure to 'do something' to satisfy investor appetite for short-term gain is John Peace at GUS. Fortunately for him, he's done fantastically well with all four of his main businesses in recent years " Argos, Homebase, Burberry and Experian. Yet the wolves are at his door...
British retailer Gus reports six-month pretax profits up 15 percent.
- 2004-11-19
By Ian Lyall, Daily Mail, London Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Nov. 19--Argos owner GUS shrugged off the gloom shrouding the retail sector to weigh in with forecast-busting interim profits. But the group -- whose stable also includes Experian and Burberry ...
U.K. Conglomerate GUS Hands Back UKpound 200 Million, Considers Options.
- 2004-05-25
By Fiona Walsh, Evening Standard, London Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News May 25--Retail and financial conglomerate GUS is handing back UKpound 200 million to shareholders and says it will "review all strategic options" for the group over the next two years. ...
GUS keen to dispel anti-banking myth.
- 2003-07-20
Byline: Alice Hohler GUS has recently become the highest-profile example of "large UK corporates that prefer not to use investment banks". When the retail and consumer services group sold its home shopping business to the Barclay brothers for [pounds sterling]590m ([euro]844m) this year, ...
GUS ponders restructuring with sale of Experian
- 2003-05-29
RETAIL GROUP GUS, which controls Argos and the Burberry luxury goods brand, hinted it may spin off its Experian financial information division yesterday as it unveiled plans to seek a partial stock market flotation of its South African retail business. The moves represent a continuation of the...
Caution from GUS over global slowdown
- 2001-07-26
THE RETAIL and business services group Great Universal Stores expressed caution yesterday about the company's outlook amid the global economic slowdown, despite reporting strong first-quarter sales at Argos and Burberry. GUS shares dipped 10.5p to 598.5p in response to City concerns that strong consumer-spending patterns were unlikely...
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Decision Makers
| Name (plus bio) | Position |
|---|---|
| Brian Blake | President & COO |
| Joseph Wygoda | CFO |
| Rachel Goldflam | Marketing Manager |
Board of Directors
| Name (plus bio) | Position |
|---|---|
| John Pearce | Chairman |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Burberry Limited | President & COO | Current |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Burberry Limited | CFO | Current |
In 2007, Rachel joined Burberry Limited as Wholesale Marketing Manager, to help elevate the brand image for all areas of the business including Burberry London Women's and Men's ready-to-wear, outerwear, children's wear, and swimwear; Burberry shoes, handbags, and accessories; and Burberry Prorsum. She was the recipient of the 2007 Burberry Icon Award for 'Levering the Franchise' as part of the team that executed the first stateside fashion show for Burberry Prorsum Womenswear at Nordstrom's. Prior to this position, Rachel held the same title at Dolce & Gabbana USA, Inc. She began her career at Warnaco Group, Inc., liaising closely with Calvin Klein, Inc. to meet the objectives of the Calvin Klein Jeans license, and supporting the launch of Choice Calvin Klein and premium denim brand CK39. Rachel has served on The ADVERTISING Club's Young Professional's Steering Committee since 2005 and, two years later, received the Club's Rising Star Award.
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Burberry Limited | Marketing Manager | Current |
| The Advertising Club of NY | Board of Directors | Current |
| The Warnaco Group, Inc. | Former |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Burberry Limited | Chairman | Current |
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