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- Fashionable clothes have never been so easily available - or so
- 'What is this British obsession with cheap clothes?" a feted international fashion commentator once asked me at Topshop's first London Fashion Week catwalk show. The high-street giant's debut appearance at the event, back in the autumn of 2005, was subject to some controversy. With all that money and power behind...
- Research articles 2007-11-16
- Pay Gap Between CEOs and Top Lieutenants Raises Eyebrows
- Yesterday the Financial Times reported the results of a survey it conducted with Salary.com comparing the compensation of CEOs and their deputies. The results are interesting: The average total compensation for a S&P 500 chief executive was about twice as much as the second most highly paid executive last...
- Blog posts 2007-10-08
- What Does the Female Boomer Consumer Want?
- The Gap tried and failed (with their Forth & Towne division) to attract baby boomer women, and now Ann Taylor's taking a stab at it. It's no secret baby boomers have money to spend -- Ad Age estimates the demographic's spending power at 1.7 trillion -- but the question seems to...
- Blog posts 2007-08-27
- Can Gap Come Back?
- The Gap has faltered for several quarters, with slowing earnings growth and an increasingly obscure brand identity. Younger buyers flock to cooler competitors like Abercrombie and American Eagle, and Gap's Forth & Towne brand failed to win its target market of middle-aged women. Some key executives, including the company's vice...
- Blog posts 2007-07-11
- How Gap got its groove back
- Paris, 7 October 2004. In a dimly lit alley, a well-heeled scrum is jostling to get past the bouncer standing beside a lacquered door. So well known is this particular club, it boasts no sign or even street number. Welcome to Chez Castel, the Left Bank's oldest and most prestigious...
- Research articles 2004-11-08
- Gap draws up a map of unfair working practices
- Organisations committed to eradicating sweatshop labour have welcomed a report by the clothing company Gap on suppliers whose factories don't comply with minimum labour conditions. They hope other retailers will follow suit. David Usborne reports A report by the clothing company Gap on suppliers whose factories don't comply with minimum...
- Research articles 2004-05-13
- Gap Executive Leaves Retailer for Vice-President Job at Ralph Lauren.
- By Sarah Bridge, Financial Mail on Sunday, London Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Feb. 10--One of the top European executives at American clothing giant Gap has quit to join rival Ralph Lauren in a move that deals another blow to the struggling chain....
- Research articles 2002-02-10
- Furiously Fast Fashions
- The big cloything stores rotate styles on and off the racks quicker than ever. Their secret: Hong Kongs Li & Fung, one of the speediest suppliers on Earth. THE EXPRESS STORE ON MANHATTAN'S Fifth Avenue couldn't have a more fitting name. The trendy retailer, owned by the Limited, is...
- Research articles 2001-06-11
- AFTER ROBUST 3RD QUARTER, AN UNCERTAIN FUTURE; BREADTH OF OFFERING SEEN AS MAJOR ASSET FOR VALUE CHANNEL IF FUNDAMENTALS WEAKEN.(Statistical Data Included)
- NEW YORK -- Retailers will be hard-pressed in 2000 to live up to what has been an outstanding year for retailing in 1999. While the larger economic picture still looks mostly favorable, sales heading into the new millennium will likely be somewhat...
- Research articles 1999-12-06
- Gap Gambles Little with Growth Plan
- Gap will try a little of this and a little of that to get sales growth going, but maybe too little. The company announced that it will build on a prototype test and remodel 50 of its Old Navy stores as part of a plan to move...
- Blog posts 2009-06-15
- Gap Cost Cutting Won't Fashion a Turn Around
- While some retailers can cut costs and wait for the economy to turn around, austerity moves, no matter if well intentioned and executed, won’t position Gap for recovery as its three major divisions have lost their connections to customers. In its latest move to save money, Gap...
- Blog posts 2009-03-20
- Silver: Gap Between Paper and Physical Prices Widening Daily
- Tim Iacono submits: We were out for most of the day yesterday, so, I called into California Numismatics' 24-hour toll free recording to find out what happened in precious metals markets. What I heard was quite shocking and the chart below only tells half the story of how the...
- External links 2008-10-16
- The $10,000 Salary Gap for Women in Startups
- Study after study has demonstrated salary gaps for female executives versus their male colleagues, especially in large companies. Now new research by Harvard Business School professor Noam Wasserman demonstrates that the pay gaps persist in startups, too -- although less so. Looking at data on 2,200 executives...
- Blog posts 2009-02-19
- How to Deal with Gaps in Your Resume
- The Find: Lay-offs and higher unemployment means many people will soon face gaps in employment on their resumes; here's how to explain them to a potential employer. The Source: A new survey and tips from recruitment company OfficeTeam. The Takeaway: Executives rarely unanimously agree...
- Blog posts 2008-11-25
- The Business-IT Gap: A Key Challenge
- Technological tools are ways of harnessing nature to accomplish work, ranging from steam engines to electricity, from automobiles to airplanes, from telephones to computers. Organizational methods are ways of organizing and managing people and other resources to accomplish work, ranging from factories to assembly lines, from M-organizations to franchises, from...
- White papers 2003-09-20
- The Gap (Part 1 Of 2)
- A proverbial gap exists between business users articulating their needs and technology teams understanding it and "Running with the ball." It's quite easy for project teams to fall into this chasm, and for projects failing after "Good money is thrown after bad money" - only because the real business needs...
- White papers 2003-12-03
- Most e-Government-For-Development Projects Fail: How Can Risks Be Reduced?
- eGovernment can make a valuable contribution to development. However, at present, the majority of e-government-for-development projects fail either totally or partially. This paper explains the underlying cause of failure: the oversize gaps between project design and on-the-ground reality (known as 'Design-reality gaps'). The dimensions of these gaps are identified, as...
- White papers 2003-08-06
- Employment Tips: How To Put A Positive Spin On Resume Gaps
- When you are sure that time gaps in your resume will give prospective employers pause, you shouldn't leave them as-is. Resume gaps are dangerous because hiring managers want to know why you were out of work for a year or why you put off going back to school for six...
- White papers 2006-12-20
- Using A Resume With Employment Gaps: Turn Negative Gaps Into Positive Experiences
- The biggest difference between a chronological resume and a functional resume is the fact that a chronological resume, when done correctly, is easier for hiring managers to read. Potential employers will usually read a chronological resume starting with your employment experience, and look at everything else afterward. Because of this,...
- White papers 2008-05-15
- Tips To Handle Employment Gaps
- This paper gives job seekers some important pointers on handle gaps in their work history. Being unemployed is a difficult and stressful situation. To make matters even worse, the fact that you may not currently have a job can prevent you from finding a job. It is unfair, but true....
- White papers 2008-01-01
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