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Children's, Business presents its third annual listing of the nation's top 100 children s wear retailers. The list includes every type of establishment selling children's wear to the public, from [...]

Children's Business presents its second annual listing of the nation's top 100 children's wear retailers. The group ranges from traditional department store companies, such as R.H. Macy and Dillard Department [...]

This year's winners of the Childrenswear Manufacturers' Association Annual Retailer Awards vary in format, price points and region, but they share a committment to excellent relations with their vendors and [...]

Children's Business presents the first estimates ever published of the top 100 children's wear retailers in the U. S. The group ranges in volume from Wal-Mart at the top to [...]

It may come as a surprise to some, but the savvy children's wear exec of the |90s knows that the ethnic market is rapidly transforming Americas retail landscape. Imagine waking [...]

For many, malls have become the cultural cornerstones of the '90s. And while there are fewer new malls being built, the old ones are taking on a new face. Joining [...]

Manufacturers of everything from children's clothes to cameras have discovered that the family is 'in.' Here we explore how today's family has evolved and what these changes mean to marketers. [...]

The major children's wear labels are on the rebound at the discount and department store levels. What's in a name? Plenty, when it comes to children's wear. Many major discount [...]

Toy makers sing a new song for '92, lifting the spirits of buyers bogged down by the recessionary blues. The 89th annual American International Toy Fair, held in New York [...]

The Recession is proving to be a great time to expand one's business - especially for upper-end children's product manufacturers. A number of high-end children's dress, sportswear, bedding and shoe [...]

|Look Mommy, no hands!' Not unlike children trying to model their lifestyles after adults to appear more grown-up, the kids' divisions of specialists like The Gap and The Limited started [...]

DOING NYC DEPARTMENT STORES Discounters, the retail wizards of the '80s, may be taking over much of America's children's wear market - but not in New York City. There, specialty [...]

WHAT'S PLAYSKOOL'S NAME DOING ON A PAIR OF SNEAKERS? The names Sony, Gillette and Proctor & Gamble may draw a blank from some kids, but there's hardly a child who [...]

THERE'S NO PLACE LIKE HOME That's 'something' amounts to an expertise in the manufacturing of certain styles and the advantage of being located in the U.S. near the retailers. A [...]

It's likely that consumers shopping for children's clothing in the last few years may think they're seeing double. Increasingly, in one store after another, national brand children's wear is merchandised [...]

Children's wear and family apparel stores often dangle many add-on purchases before a young parent: toys, hair and clothing accessories, hosiery, even furniture. But rarely do apparel stores offer the [...]

American-made children's wear is finding new fans among the country's children's wear retailers, who have awakened to the value Of just-in-time inventory replenishment of basic product, and often find they [...]

Something old, something new, some knockoffs and plenty of licensed toys were on display during the 90th Annual American International Toy Fair in New York. Reflecting the strong performance of [...]

Executives behind the revamped Children's Place expect a new child-friendly format and sharper private label focus to help the apparel specialty chain become the place to be for both parents [...]

NOT ALL FUN AND GAMES While buyers seem willing to play with the 1991 toy introductions, they say dealing with high retail prices and low consumer confidence is not their [...]

RECESSION-PROOF RETAILING Mind your inventories, stay liquid, and keep the store fresh and your mind on the long-term - these are the principles for success during a retail recession, say [...]

On TARGET * Cottage Grove, Minnesota, had a problem with Target, the discount department store division of Dayton Hudson Corporation. The problem: Cottage Grove had no Target store, even though, [...]

THE NEW TEAM PLAYERS The sports-licensed products category is looking for a big win in kids' with its new lineup of children's manufacturers. Does Bart know football? Maybe not, but [...]

Children's Business presents its eighth annual listing of the nation's 'top children's wear retailers. The list includes all kinds of kids' wear retailers, from department stores like Federated to discounters [...]

Children's Business presents its seventh annual listing of the nation's top children's wear retailers. In 1998, the top 100 children's wear retailers accounted for about 92 percent of the total [...]

If a typical retail conglomerate announced plans to roll out a chain of 1,000 stores selling children's products within four years, industry analysts would first check to see if the [...]

TV home shopping once conjured up images of overpriced costume jewelry being sold breathlessly to gullible insomniacs. But not any more. Many of the top men's and women's wear retailers [...]

Wal-Mart has had no customers during the past few months. Neither has Kmart, Bradlees nor some other discount department stores. But fortunately plenty of 'guests' have stopped by to outfit [...]

Henry Scott distinctly remembers two days in his business career at J.C. Penney. One was in 1962 when he was made a buyer for the first time, and the other [...]

The infants' and toddlers' wear market is moving about as fast as a one-year-old - somewhere between crawling and walking. It's growing a little slower than children's wear generally, which [...]

ATHLETIC HIGHS AND LOWS When athletic footwear retailers say that both the high and low are selling, they used to mean basketball high tops and low tops; now they're probably [...]

Retail's Coming ATTRACTIONS With the recent popularity of entertainment-based licensed merchandise, retailers are seeking to maximize their profits through elaborate in-store promotions. Retail promotions built on the right licensed property [...]

FIRMS HAD A `LICENSE TO THRILL' AT RECENT LICENSING SHOW The tenth annual Licensing Show, held recently at the New York Hilton Hotel, drew some truly 'hot properties.' Ivana Trump, [...]

TALBOTS TARGETS KIDS' WITH STORES Here's a retail development that should wield power with today's executive moms. Talbots, the retailer and designed known for its updated classics styled with the [...]

The children's wear market expanded moderately in 1993, according to surveys by The NPD Group, a Port Washington-based market research firm, though certain categories gained much more than others. Overall, [...]

Mass marketers, department stores and specialty shops all came under the scrutiny of Wall Street in one well-attended NRF seminar. Jeff Feiner, vice president of equity research at Salomon Brothers, [...]

The 1990s will be the 'decade without mercy,' says Sam Geist, president of Geist and Associates. 'In the '80s you didn't have to be brain surgeon to build your business,' [...]

The seminar 'Spirited and Visionary Thinking in Management,' revealed the restructuring plans of two major retailers--Sears and Carter Hawley Hale, the Los Angeles-based department store. Arthur Martinez, who was appointed [...]

Touted as retailing's largest gathering, the National Retail Federation conventional and expo was held recently in New York. Attracting everyone from the largest chains to the corner five-and dimes, the [...]

Sports licensed children's wear is moving into a league of its own at retail, according to retailers. 'Kids' is certainly the growth area in team apparel,' says John Sweeney, licensed [...]

Esprit de Corp Kids, among the top dozen children's wear vendors in the country, is launching a spirited effort to expand its customer base. The company has hired the Jack [...]

Merger-mania lives on in the toy manufacturing industry. Mattel, maker of Barbie dolls and Hot Wheels cars, will merge with Fisher-Price, the leading preschool toy manufacturer, creating a company that [...]

First came Disney Babies, then Muppet Babies, now it's Warner Bros.' turn. Looney Tunes Lovables, a new licensing program based on the Looney Tunes characters as infants, marks the company's [...]

Leaving college in the late 1970s, Rick Markee was drawn to retailing, he says, because being a buyer offered some of the risk-taking and responsibility of running a business. Now, [...]

A number of major discounters have discovered a rich new market: New York. Although the second largest children's wear market after California, New York State, and especially New York City, [...]

The first observation many experienced retailers make about 'strategic partnering' - the retailing buzz-word of the nineties - is that it has been around for ages. The next thing they [...]

The children's shoe market may have found its stride again after running in place for over a year, according to the most recent consumer survey from Footwear Market Insights, a [...]