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Card Exits as Jones Splits Under Sycamore The former Jones Group is decentralizing under the ownership of Sycamore Partners, and Wesley Card, who led the company as chief executive officer [...]

Banana Republic Taps, Invests in Marissa Webb Gap Inc. is taking a page out of the LVMH Moét Hennessy Louis Vuitton playbook. The U.S. retailer on Tuesday revealed it has [...]

Glen Senk Forms Front Row Partners Glen Senk has landed and plans on shaking up the investment scene. The former chief executive officer of David Yurman and Urban Outfitters Inc. [...]

FASHION SCOOPS TURNEY'S STOCK PAYDAY: Sharen Turney , chief executive officer and president of Victoria's Secret, sold off 143,049 shares of parent company L Brands Inc.'s stock on Monday at [...]

Golden Gate Takes Stake in Ann Ann Inc. has a new admirer - who promptly pushed the retailer into the spotlight. Golden Gate Capital spent $156.2 million this year to [...]

J. Crew IPO More Likely As Talks With Fast Stall It looks like J. Crew Group Inc.'s future might lead to Wall Street rather than Tokyo. The private equity-owned fashion [...]

Google Tapping Into Wearable Tech Google is staking its claim in the still-nascent, but promising category of wearable technology - and it's tapped Fossil as a partner. The Web giant [...]

Byline: EVAN CLARK Fast Retailing Seeing J. Crew as Pricy? Not so fast. Fast Retailing Co. Ltd. is said to have balked at the $5 billion price tag for J. [...]

Industry Execs Discuss Business Environment After a tough close to 2013, retailers are licking their wounds, starting to feel some of their old life return and - once again - [...]

Retailing's Battlefield: Fight for Market Share Fashion's become a street fight for market share. To grow and keep ravenous investors happy, retailers need to do everything they can to push [...]

Fast's Global Ambitions Could Involve J. Crew Fast Retailing Co. Ltd.'s Tadashi Yanai appears ready to spend big time in his drive to become the world's largest fashion retailer - [...]

Protecting Wearable Tech The early birds in the wearable tech world should takes steps to hold on to their good ideas. That was a big part of the message at [...]

NEW YORK -- The month that was expected to provide some of the easiest retail comparisons of the year instead provided its biggest disappointment. Retailers marked the one-year anniversary of [...]

Security in Focus After Shooting After a rash of shootings in public spaces - including last year's deadly siege of a mall in Nairobi, Kenya - retailers, mall operators and [...]

Thomas Wylde Looks to Take Next Step Paula Thomas of Thomas Wylde has hired Elsa Berry's Vendéme Global Partners to find a strategic partner and investor who can help propel [...]

Groupon Buys Ideeli for $43 Million Fashion is a growing business for Groupon - and the deal site is looking to fend off the competition by paying for a bigger [...]

KATE SPADE Last Brand Standing As William L. Mccomb passes the baton to Craig Leavitt, he's handing over a company projecting significant growth in its primary business: Kate Spade. Fifth [...]

MEMO PAD WHO'S THE BEST?: The usual knock on chief executive officers is that they are looking for, or too pressured to make, the quick kill some action that will [...]

Byline: EVAN CLARK Goode Partners Acquires Stake in Sneaker Villa Growth continues to be the name of the game when it comes to investing in retail. Private equity firm Goode [...]

Sycamore to Buy Jones in $2.2B Deal By EVAN CLARK The Jones group Inc. is about to have a new owner and fashion gets a new empire builder in Stefan [...]

Deal to Buy Jones Group Close By EVAN CLARK The deal to take The Jones Group Inc. private is coming down to the wire. Stefan L. Kaluzny's Sycamore Partners is [...]

The Dealmakers EVAN CLARK Neiman Marcus and Saks Fifth Avenue stole the takeover headlines this year, but there was plenty of other dealmaking going on. Luxury giants invested in brands [...]

3 The $6 Billion Play By Evan Clark Neiman Marcus has new owners and a lot of changes in the pipeline. Operationally, little appears to have changed at Neiman Marcus [...]

MACY'S ON THE MOVE Evan Clark The Macy's Inc. Retail machine continues to roll on. The end result of decades of consolidation with 840 doors and nearly $28 billion in [...]

Jones-Sycamore Deal Said Near Closing EVAN CLARK After months of meeting with strategic and financial suitors, The Jones Group Inc. is just about ready for the altar. The company's talks [...]

FASHION SCOOPS ABOVE AND BEYOND: Moncler, which closed its road show on Wednesday, said Thursday retail investors' share requests exceeded 14 times the number of shares offered to the public [...]

Men's Wearhouse Earnings Slip in Q3 By EVAN CLARK The Men's Wearhouse Inc. registered lower third-quarter earnings and a modest uptick in sales, but remained mostly mum on its $1.2 [...]

The Arc of Liz Claiborne Evan Clark and Vicki M. Young At the company's height in 2006, it posted annual volume of $4.99 billion and a portfolio of 40 brands. [...]

Moody's Eyeing Sears Lands' End Plan EVAN CLARK Moody's investors service is keeping a close eye on Sears Holdings Corp.'s plan to spin off the Lands' End business. The debt [...]

Fifth & Pacific Sells Lucky for $225M By VICKI M. YOUNG and EVAN CLARK WITH CONTRIBUTIONS FROM ARNOLD J. KARR Then there was one. Fifth & Pacific Cos. Inc.'s sale [...]

Eddie's Epistles By EVAN CLARK Copying the style of his idol Warren Buffett, Edward S. Lampert has chosen over the years to weigh in on the state of Sears Holdings [...]

Lampert Returning Funds to Investors By EVAN CLARK Edward S. Lampert isn't backing away from Sears Holding Corp. so much as investors are walking out on him. Lampert, who has [...]

Penney's Offering Being Eyed by SEC EVAN CLARK The securities and Exchange Commission is taking a close look at J.C. Penney Co. Inc.'s September stock offering which came amid a [...]

Rosengard Exits Li & Fung JEAN E. PALMIERI and EVAN CLARK Paul Rosengard has resigned as president of men's brands at LF USA and will join DDK and Boston Traders [...]

Penney's Comps Rise 10.1% in November EVAN CLARK J.C. Penney Co. Inc. continued to gain momentum last month with comparable-store sales increasing 10.1 percent. Myron 'Mike' Ullman 3rd, chief executive [...]

Aéropostale Adopts Poison Pill By EVAN CLARK Aéropostale Inc.'s board, which is being pressured by investors to consider selling the company, put a poison pill in place to make sure [...]

MW Turns the Tables With Jos. A. Bank Offer By ARNOLD J. KARR and EVAN CLARK The hunter is now being pursued by the game. In a stunning turnabout in [...]

REITs Gain Advantage Over Retailers By EVAN CLARK As retailers slug it out for market share and the attention of distracted consumers, landlords are taking full advantage of the limited [...]

UBS Sees Private-Label Goods Diminishing By EVAN CLARK For decades, department stores have seen inexpensive private-label duds as traffic drivers and profit centers but now, a group of UBS analysts [...]

Jones and Lucky Deals Said Near Finish Line By EVAN CLARK and VICKI M. YOUNG The dealmakers have been quiet lately, but that doesn't mean they haven't been busy. The [...]

FASHION SCOOPS SHAVING PROCTER & GAMBLE: Activist investor William Ackman trimmed the Procter & Gamble Co. stock in his portfolio. The investor's Pershing Square Capital Management sold 6.8 million shares [...]

More Details Emerge on Vince IPO EVAN CLARK AND VICKI M. YOUNG Vince is almost ready for its Wall Street debut. The brand's corporate parent, Apparel Holding Corp., said it [...]

Twitter Shares Soar on NYSE Debut EVAN CLARK Twitter Inc. had its day in the spotlight Thursday. Shares of the microblogging site, which were priced at $26 Wednesday for the [...]

G-III Drops Out of Jones Pursuit By EVAN CLARK The effort to sell The Jones Group Inc. has hit a stumbling block. G-III Apparel Group Ltd., which had been looking [...]

Hudson's Bay Closes on Saks Deal By EVAN CLARK Saks fifth avenue has moved into its new home at Hudson's Bay Co. Hudson's Bay said its deal to buy Saks [...]

Estée Lauder Cos. in Fragrance Push By EVAN CLARK NEW YORK Fragrance is coming into focus at the Estée Lauder Cos. Inc., which beat first-quarter profit expectations with a modest [...]