Word: ferkauf
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...were obliged to throw up barricades to keep traffic moving, and fire marshals let latecomers into the store only as other shoppers left. Since this smashing debut, Korvette's Fifth Avenue has become one of Manhattan's foremost tourist attractions-and the name of publicity-shunning Eugene Ferkauf is beginning to be nationally known...
...Eugene Ferkauf is one of the great merchandisers of our time," says Acting Dean George W. Robbins of the U.C.L.A...
School of Business. Even higher tribute comes from Malcolm McNair, professor of retailing at the Harvard Business School, who rates Ferkauf as one of the six greatest merchants in U.S. history...
Penney, General Robert E. Wood of Sears, Roebuck, and Michael Cullen, the first supermarketeer.) From Bags to Riches. The man whom McNair hails as the greatest of contemporary U.S. merchants is by turn profane and philosophical, charming and fiercely combative. Eugene Ferkauf is a boy from Brooklyn, and he does not pretend otherwise. Brooklyn is only a 15? subway ride and half a world away from Fifth Avenue...
...Ferkauf made the trip unselfconsciously...