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• David's Bridal Continues Expansion throughout the United States.

  - 2004-01-10

  By Paul Grimaldi, Providence Journal, R.I. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jan. 10--It's an 800-lb. gorilla in a white satin dress. And it's gobbling up customers like they were fresh fruit on the hors d'oeuvres table at a wedding reception. David's...

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• Mays Department Stores Introduces New Clothing Brand.

  - 2003-03-08

  By Thomas Lee, St. Louis Post-Dispatch Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Mar. 8--May Department Stores Co. of St. Louis has replaced its defunct "be" women's clothing brand with Ideology, a move the company hopes will give new life to its fledgling private-label...

  Tags: brand, Branding, Ideology, MARKETING, May Department Stores Co., women

• bebe stores, inc. Wins Appeal: Panel Upholds Order Barring May Department Stores Co. from Using ``be'' Brand

  - 2002-12-20

  Business Editors BRISBANE, Calif.--BUSINESS WIRE--Dec. 20, 2002 bebe stores, inc. (Nasdaq:BEBE) announced that a federal appeals court panel this week rejected May Department Stores Company's appeal to lift a preliminary injunction that would bar it from using the name "be" on a clothing line for young women. ...

  Tags: brand, Company, May Department Stores Co., Retail, women

• St. Louis-Based Retailer Must Inform Shoppers about Clothing.

  - 2002-10-27

  By Chern Yeh Kwok, St. Louis Post-Dispatch Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Oct. 27--The ads on billboards and in magazines implore women to "be a knockout" ... "be someone's dream" ... "be a tomboy" ... "be yourself." But if a lesson...

  Tags: advertisement, brand, Branding, MARKETING, May Department Stores Co., women

• Lord and Taylor to Open in Harrisburg, Pa., Mall.(Originated from , The Patriot-News, Harrisburg, Pa.)

  - 1997-02-25

  Feb. 25--Lord & Taylor will open a store at Harrisburg East Mall on March 12. The upscale, clothing-oriented store will be located in the space formerly occupied by John Wanamaker, which closed in 1995. It will employ 180 people in 122,000...

  Tags: Branding, Lord & Taylor, MARKETING, May Department Stores Co., women

• May Co., Mercantile nets rise in second quarter. (May Department Stores Co., Mercantile Stores Co.)(Brief Article)

  - 1995-08-08

  NEW YORK -- Cost controls and stronger sales of women's apparel and shoes in July lifted second-quarter earnings higher than Wall Street estimates at May Department Stores Co. and Mercantile Stores Co. The profit gains came despite heavy promotions. May Co.'s earnings for the...

  Tags: apparel, earnings, May Department Stores Co., SALES, women

• Men's wear helps boost earnings at May Co., Mercantile in period.(May Department Stores Co., Mercantile Stores Company Inc., first quarter of 1995)

  - 1995-05-09

  May Department Stores Co. and Mercantile Stores Company Inc. improved their 1995 first-quarter earnings with help from sales of men's wear. May improved its earnings 1.8% to $114 million from $112 million in the previous quarter. Sales grew 6.8% to $2.7 billion. The improvement was due to cost controls and...

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• Men's business improving at May Co. (May Department Stores Co.) (Brief Article)

  - 1993-05-24

  ST. LOUIS FNS -- After a sluggish start, men's apparel business has improved in recent weeks, David C. Farrell, chairman of May Department Stores Co., told DNR following the annual meeting of shareholders here Friday. He noted, however, that there's "a lot of...

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