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The Consolidation Opportunity

Dozens of established retail names -- some, like 150-year-old Filene's, venerable old brands that were fixtures in their communities -- have been disappe...  Read story

No Fonda Fan

I am pleased to learn the in-depth story of the failure of Jane Fonda's Workout clothing line ("Starstruck," October 1985). But I am shocked by INC.'s co...  Read story

Getting Big Companies to Call

Cultivating a new market without the benefit of a sales force.  Read story

Father, Son, Co.

Quote on the relationship between an entrepreneurial father and son.  Read story

The Trouble with Tax Holidays

Consumers and politicians love them, but state sales tax holidays are becoming a major headache for businesses.  Read story

Get A Whiff Of This

Creative Environments Inc. founder plans to expand product fragrancing company.  Read story

Pushing Products Through The Pipeline

Frank Brady combines marketing savvy and merchandising skills to move products off the shelves.  Read story

Packaging: When It's Time for a Makeover

Partners from a gourmet-biscuit company explain how and why they pursued a new design for packaging their products.  Read story

Grand Plans

Shoestring start-ups: seven fast-growing companies that were started for $1,000 or less, and tactics to borrow for your own start-up.  Read story

Ahead Of The Pack

Secrets of Selling to the Home  Read story

Piggyback

A store within a store serves as a joint venture providing benefits to both companies.  Read story

Face-off

Two men, each with an Inc. 500 clothing company, debate the differences between their companies.  Read story

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Pamela Miller "was troubled watching executive women look like bag ladies" as they walked to Wall Street carrying their dress shoes in plastic bags. She s...  Read story

Distribution: Mother of Invention

A quick look at how a children's T-shirt company found a niche market in resort gift shops.  Read story

Tailor-Made in America

A business expert explains how craftmanship practiced at so-called "Craftories" is inventing a new competitive edge.  Read story

Small Businesses in Big Apple Hit Hard by Strike

Dec. 21, 2005 --They carpooled, peddled their bikes, or legged it out. Or stayed home. Yet even as owners and employees of N...  Read story

When Your Neck Is On The Line

Should a leading tiemaker cope with a market slump by putting his own neck on the line?  Read story

Raising Cane

Transforming the Big Apple into Tinseltown.  Read story

Whose Brand Is It, Anyway?

Terri Williamson did a textbook job of launching Glow. Jennifer Lopez and her team did a textbook job of launching Glow by J.Lo. And then their worlds collided.  Read story

Super Deli

Zabar's grosses $12 million a year in New York City.  Read story

Street Smarts: Learning From Mistakes

A failed start-up has taught me (at least) two important things.  Read story

Street Smarts: The Offer, Part Three

I can sell my businesses for more money than I ever thought possible. But then who will I be?  Read story

TV or Not TV

How businesses are selling products through TV shopping channels such as QVC and Home Shopping Network.  Read story

Upstarts: Convenience Cuisine

Not sure where your next meal is coming from? Try the Web. A look at why several Internet start-ups are hoping online shoppers will turn to the Web to satisf...  Read story

Getting Your Ads Right

"We're moving online!! Blow out sale at our store location. Phone orders welcome." That's what was on the postcard. This advertisement was sent to ...  Read story

The Markdown Blues, Revisited

It's been a while since I've read anything quite like this. Part food fight, part mud wrestling, part theatre of the absurd. A recent New York...  Read story

The Wonderland Economy

A close-up look at the vital role small business plays in America's economy that debunks many myths about this sector.  Read story

Taking a Niche Player Big-Time

Keurig Inc. has transformed office coffee with its unique, one-cup-at-a-time system. Can it do the same for the at-home market--with machines that cost $250 ...  Read story

Lessons Learned

A CEO tells how the lessons he learned climbing mountains helped him turn around a company.  Read story

How I Did It: Richard Schaps, CEO, Van Wagner Communications

Richard Schaps sold his outdoor-advertising company, Van Wagner, for $170 million. On Tuesday, he passed out millions of dollars to his people--and then star...  Read story

The Eyes Still Have It

Just how many fortunes can Bob Hillman make by starting the same business over and over?  Read story

Applicant of the Week: Johnny Cupcakes

How a 26-year-old college drop-out created a multi-million dollar t-shirt business with no business plan, no advertising, and no investors.  Read story

Good Neighbors

The secret to General Growth's top performance in the REIT business: John Bucksbaum knows how to make competing tenants accept one another. Any c...  Read story

Upstarts: Digital Photography

Digital photo start-ups are getting ready for their close-up. But will consumers like how things develop?  Read story

The Inner City 100

100 street-smart companies.  Read story

How to Start a T-shirt Company

Great designs are not enough, according to Johnny Earle of Johnny Cupcakes. You also need lots of buzz and exclusivity  Read story

Breaking Through

How companies just like yours mushroomed into powerhouses in their industries. A conversation with Keith R. McFarland.  Read story

Extended Interview with David Blumenthal

Here's more from the February 2005 Inc. magazine interview with David Blumenthal, CEO of Lion Brand Yarn Company.  Read story

Merchant Prince Stanley Marcus

One of retailing's great impresarios thinks he knows who's to blame for the lost arts of salesmanship and merchandising -- it's the retailers themselves  Read story

Feet Don't Fail Me Now

Shoe manufacturer must differentiate its offerings from cheaper imitators through marketing and advertising.  Read story

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