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...Europe, H&M has a formula that works. "We offer the best value for your money," says H&M chairman Stefan Persson. H&M is synonymous with the concept of "fast fashion"--trendy clothes at prices so low that the clothes are all but disposable. While the styles may be impulse buys, the company has maintained a disciplined, conservative approach to expansion that has turned H&M into Europe's second largest retailer in little more than a decade. Today H&M has 1,400 stores in 28 countries, including 114 in the U.S.; there it is still a small...
...come to dominate the Asian retail market, Japan has taken a backseat. H&M will open its first store there by 2008. Other possibilities, like Singapore, are in the works. "We're taking things slow to start out, but we're clearly not going into Asia for 10 stores," Persson explains. "The potential for the market is just too huge...
...employee health and industrial medicine. “I think the program’s been taken seriously—we’ve always been known to eat big meals, but I think the trend may be getting away from that,” said Captain Stephen G. Persson of the City of Cambridge Fire Department. “Now we’re trying to eat more healthy and exercise and do the things we’re supposed to be doing.” But according to Bolduc-Hicks, the program’s funding...
...into their private computer network 78 times between January and March. The ruling SDP has accused Liberal Party campaigners of illegally obtaining its strategy secrets for the Sept. 17 general elections by accessing an Intranet reserved for SDP leadership. Prime Minister and leader of the SDP Göran Persson said he was "shocked" by this "serious crime." It was, he said, "as if someone steals the key to your house and rummages through your private belongings." Three Liberal Party officials have been formally charged, while three others, including the influential party secretary Johan Jakobsson, have all resigned. Strategists...
...That's an assessment he shares with the U.S. President. "After a succession of statesmen?Jiang Zemin, Vladimir Putin, Kim Dae Jung, Sweden's Goran Persson, Madeleine Albright?have returned home to tell us how rational, well informed, witty, charming, and deeply popular Kim Jong Il is, President Bush's judgement that Kim is loathsome seems the only honest and truthful one," Becker writes. He measures Kim's odiousness not just in nuclear weapons but in corpses. Kim and his father, Kim Il Sung, are responsible for the deaths of millions of North Koreans, he estimates, including as many...