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Christmas All Year Round
CEO Fred Schwam takes us inside his workshop, which designs holiday decorations for Radio City Music Hall, Saks Fifth Avenue, and other New York City land... Watch video
Saks Inc.
Why It's Trending: Shares in Saks Inc. have risen about 34 percent, amidst rumors of a potential acquisition by a private equity firm.
Recent Articles about Saks Inc.
Insurance: Protecting Against Disability
Sobering fact of the month: According to insurance-industry statistics, you are more likely to suffer an accident or illness that disables you for at leas... Read more
How I Did It: Bobbi Brown, Founder and CEO, Bobbi Brown Cosmetics
In New York in the excessive 1980s, Bobbi Brown made it big by pushing moderation. She became makeup artist to the stars by introducing a palette of natural ... Read more
Television;
IT ISN'T EXACTLY "Let's Make a Deal" -- no studio audience members dressed up as dinner salads, no contestants betting the lawn furniture against whatever... Read more
10 Inspiring Success Stories
May is Small Business Month, and to celebrate we're honoring 31 inspiring stories of small business success. Here's a look at ten of them. View slideshow
Containing a Counter Culture
Retail today is all about serving customers, and the people behind the counter need to realize that they are the culture. Techniques are discussed for recrui... Read more
Things I Can't Live Without: Fred Schwam
CEO of American Christmas Decorations, which creates holiday displays for more than 300 New York City businesses, including Radio City Music Hall, Bloomingda... Read more
How to Co-Brand to Boost Sales
Leveraging synergistic brands can take a business to new and exciting heights. How can co-branding help you to reach an expanded audience with your message? Read more
Timing's Everything
A CEO recounts how she brought computers online in her office in a short amount of time and how you can do the same. Read more
Appreciating Gifts: Look Past The Present
Let's face it: The cheese straightener you bought your brother-in-law last December 24th was probably packed back in its box and shunted to the basement. ... Read more
The Case For Paying Chargebacks
Chargebacks are the dirty little secret of the fashion industry. The idea is that retailers force vendors to make good on the full markup to the wholesal... Read more
‘Tis the Season for Retail; Is Being King Overrated?
The top 25 most active VCs . Venture capital investments bounced up 17.5 percent last quarter. Which VC firms were responsible for the uptick? Read more
Sole Success
The Swartz brothers combined old-time quality, a new sales strategy, and a lot of luck to move their boots from Army-Navy stores to Saks in just two years. Read more
Scott Harrison: Why Charity Shouldn't Be About Guilt
The founder of charity:water talks about the three reasons his charity is revolutionizing the way we give. Read more
180s CEO Steps Down
July 18, 2005 --Brian Le Gette has stepped down as CEO of 180s LLC, the performance apparel company he founded in 1994 with former classma... Read more
Plans for Growth
In order to fuel her company's growth, Lori Bonn Gallagher, CEO of Lori Bonn Design, needs significantly more capital than she's gotten so far. Read more
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 more
New Proflts For Nonprofits
Pinched by cutbacks in government funding, nonprofit organizations are entering the marketplace in more and more aggressive ways. That has prompted compla... Read more
Stop The Presses
Arandell-Schmidt, once known as a calendar printer, totally repositioned itself to go after the catalog market. Read more
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 more
Running a Mom-Friendly Business (in Heels)
Rosie Pope, star of Bravo's Pregnant in Heels , on being a mompreneur, having a hit reality show, and getting spoofed on SNL . Read more
The Inner City 100 Profiles: 51-60
NO. 51 SLR Contracting & Service Buffalo Construction services Read more
Brand Demands
The CEO of an apparel company and the man behind Timberland weigh in on brand integrity. Read more
charity:water CEO Lands Huge Commitment from Inc. 5000 CEOs
Scott Harrison's story inspires Inc. 500|5000 attendees to donate their birthdays to charity:water. Read more
Starstruck
Jane Fonda starred in the marketing campaign for her ill-fated line of exercisewear. But Ron Mester's company landed the leading role in the ensuing tragedy. Read more
High And Dry
Imports have not stopped Peerless Umbrella Co. In fact, it's growing faster than ever. Read more
Betsey Johnson, Betsey Johnson
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The Pioneer of the Specialty Coffee Business
An ivy-league graduate ditches the corporate life to open a string of coffee shops in New York City. Read more
The Fastest-Growing Private Company of 2011
Paul Hurley of ideeli, the midmarket fashion juggernaut, on how he rose to the top of this year's Inc. 500 Read more
Videoconferencing for the Rest of Us
A close-up look at some new technology making the face-to-face phone call affordable. Read more
Beating the Post Office at its Own Game
Entrepreneur Scott Adler tries to beat the Post Office by offering a new mailing service Read more
Firing Talent to Save the Brand
French fashion house Dior was forced to fire its creative director after he allegedly made anti-Semitic remarks, plus the rest of today's news. Read more
Growing By Design
To succeed, Salaminder had to temper its spontaneity with sound business planning. Read more
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 more
Case Study: A Quota on Profit
Lafayette 148 had high hopes for its new Chinese factory. Then it encountered an unforeseen problem: trade restrictions. Read more
Kelly Cutrone's Advice for PR Success
Kelly Cutrone, star of Bravo's Kell on Earth and founder of People's Revolution, talked to Inc.com about training the Gen Y workforce, learning the power of ... Read more
It Only Looks Easy
He's the cool boss, the take-a-year-off-to-snowboard guy, the company owner who leads by doing only what he loves. But he's also an intense and talented busi... Read more
How to Break Into the Fashion Industry
Emerging designers, beware: Even if you are able to create a beautiful product, the fashion world is fraught with tricky choices on incorporation, competitiv... Read more
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