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Defining moment: He opened his first store--a 100,000-sq.-ft., $20 million, 24-hour emporium in Kuwait City--in 2002. He opened in Dubai the following year and in Qatar last...
Luxury quotient: With hopes of positioning Bergdorf's as a brand that cuts across generational lines, Gold is overseeing a top-to-bottom renovation of the Fifth Avenue emporium, and this month he launches the company's first fully transactional website...
...Sitting in the food court on the top floor of the Mega Mall, the latest shopping emporium to open in Gurgaon, with Domino's Pizza and Subway close at hand, it's easy to imagine you're in a city like New York or Sydney. Yet India's mall boom is premature for the country's level of economic development, says Bakshi, "Incomes in India have grown, no doubt, but we need to grow much faster?at 10% for five or six years, like China?before we can support all these malls." For shop owner Varadharajan, that much economic growth...
...with kids tumbling out of a school bus eager to see, hear and touch things outside their classroom. But the field-trip destination is not the usual venue, like a museum or zoo. It's a Petco store. Tour guide Jennifer Rohan, manager of the Ramsey, N.J., pet-supply emporium, lets the kids pet a quivering chinchilla ($129.99, food and shelter sold separately), squawk at a taciturn macaw named Oscar ($2,399.99) and find Nemo the clown fish ($14.99). An hour later, the children are back on the bus clutching handout Petco-logo Frisbees and debating the merits of dogs...
Looking for a unique graduation present? Asprey, the British lifestyle emporium, sells rare books alongside its collection of luxury goods. The current stock of 1,500 volumes in the Manhattan store includes a first edition of Kenneth Grahame's The Wind in the Willows and a complete first-edition collection of Jane Austen's novels. Churchill is a hit at Asprey. One client bought a Churchill book for George H.W. Bush, and another purchased an inscribed copy of Churchill's secret-sessions speeches for Bill Clinton. There's also a first edition of Darwin's The Origin of Species...