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 FASHION RETAIL BEAUTY SPORTSWEAR EYE MEMOPAD TEXTILES ACCESSORIES FINANCIAL FASHIONCAREERS.COM  | Wednesday, April 11, 2007 TODAY'S TOP STORIES The Luxury of Sport: PPR Enters Active With $7B Bid for Puma PPR thinks luxury goods and sneakers make a perfect match, and it's about to spend more than $7 billion to prove it. Weatherproofing the Outerwear Department Forget the ebb and flow of consumer confidence or Wall Street undulations. It's the mercury rising at the wrong time of year that really makes retailers sweat. Levi's Earnings Up 61% Momentum was on the side of Levi Strauss & Co. during the first quarter, but just barely. _________________________________________________ E-Commerce Operations Manager San Francisco based E-Commerce company seeks Director of Operations. Must be a proven leader, and manage a variety of company's integral departments, including Customer Service, Warehouse Operations, Budgeting/Cost per Orders, and Order Fulfillment. Successful candidate will have 7+ years relevant operations management experience. Please respond with "WWD E-Commerce" in the subject line of your email. Apply at wwd@24seveninc.com _________________________________________________ FINANCIAL Jones' Boneparth Earns $4M in 2006 Jones Apparel Group awarded Peter Boneparth a $4 million pay package for 2006, according to the company's preliminary proxy statement filed Tuesday. Plaza Retail Taps Anthony Nicola The Plaza Retail Collection has hired Anthony Nicola, a veteran of the luxury industry, as its general manager. Financo Hires Securities Unit Chief Financo Inc. has hired Joel Glasky, a former managing director of J.P. Morgan, as head of its securities division. _________________________________________________ New from WWD, DNR and FN fashioncareers.com Introducing the premier online career center delivering quality, targeted search results and access to relevant news. _________________________________________________ FASHION Fashion Scoops: Isaacs To Isaac... Carolina Style... Packin In Could Peter Rizzo, chairman and chief executive officer of I.C. Isaacs, be heading to Isaac Mizrahi? Blue Bee Creates Buzz in Santa Barbara Blue Bee has gone from apparel retail concept to trailblazer in seven years. WWD WEST Edgy Chic for Action Sports, Surf Handbags Action sports and surf accessories are not all about floral canvas totes anymore. _________________________________________________ WWD Fashion Career Expo - Coming Soon To L.A.! May 17th, 10 AM - 3 PM, Los Angeles CA Market Center, 110 East 9th Street Hundreds of prescreened candidates meet hiring decision-makers of marquee companies in the fashion, retail and beauty industries for one day of interviewing. Interested in attending? Visit www.FashionCareerExpo.com Interested in exhibiting? Contact Melissa Yoblon at (212) 655-4505 ext. 262 or MYoblon@FashionCareeerExpo.com to reserve your booth now! www.FashionCareerExpo.com _________________________________________________ BEAUTY REPORT Beauty Beat: Sarah Jessica's Second Scent... Juvena Adds DNA Nanotechnology Items Sarah Jessica Parker, fragrance felon? That's the idea behind the ad campaign for Parker's second scent, Covet Sarah Jessica Parker, due out this fall. ACCESSORIES _________________________________________________ STILL NOT A SUBSCRIBER? WWD.COM is the fashion industry's must-have business tool! Get all the day's industry news, up-to-the-minute breaking news, web exclusives, complete classified listings and more. http://www.wwd.com/jump/subscribe _________________________________________________ MARKETING Fluid Brand IDs Are Wave of the Future Google has cast itself at the forefront of brands showing different faces, notably in the playful change of its search engine logotype to reflect various holidays and in the company"s quirky secondary stock offer of 14,159,265 shares, the number representing the first eight numbers after the decimal point in pi. (Pi, the ratio of a circle"s circumference to its diameter, is commonly expressed as 3.14). MEDIA/ADVERTISING Memo Pad: Swapping Love Notes Kate White and David Zinczenko are cohabitating - figuratively - in the May issues of their respective magazines, Cosmopolitan and Men's Health. TEXTILE & TRADE REPORT China Speaks Out Against U.S. Moves China on Tuesday rebuked the Bush administration for its toughened stance on intellectual property rights and piracy of goods. GENERAL In Brief: Nolan Hire... Talbots Promotion... Set In Stone Sharilyn Niehaus has joined Charles Nolan as vice president of sales. Previously, Niehaus was a senior account executive at Anne Klein, which she joined in 2004. | Advertisement  | ||||||
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