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"Savile Row and bespoke, for me, is a passion," he says. And his new 6,800-square-foot store is testimony to the street's revitalization. A mere 18 months ago, the British press was writing obituaries for Savile Row's tailors, whose hand-sewn suits typically start at around...
But the winds are shifting, and the middleman is becoming obsolete. "Traditional trading firms are dying off," says Victor Lo, an industrial and manufacturing lecturer at the University of Hong Kong. "They have to transform." Brands and retailers have been consolidating, liposuctioning off layers to better battle Goliaths Wal-Mart...
What's the solution? Li & Fung is moving up the food chain, becoming a brand-managing powerhouse. This year it is on track to sell more than $200 million of licensed goods like Levi's Red Tab and Signature tops and Disney plush toys--a business many analysts expect to...
Ironically, some of the brands Li & Fung is snapping up are the very ones it helped doom: American labels that were slow to export manufacturing overseas. Last year it acquired the license to sell Royal Velvet, a home-textiles brand that went bust in '03. "We wanted a company that...
This year India's tea industry has finally begun fighting back. The central government has promised $1.16 billion over the next 15 years in loans and subsidies for new, more productive plantings. Copying the clever marketing of tea producers in Sri Lanka and Africa, Indian entrepreneurs have begun to build...