140 Quotes by Howard Davidowitz

Sears is a shaken-up company, and who knows when it will recover, ... are wonderful.

Stuckey's strategy would be to take a plain low-priced product like jeans and embellish it with design. Suddenly it becomes a 'fashion' jeans and appeals to a new ethnic audience. It's the same strategy with 7,

Sears is an American institution that's getting beaten up, ... The company is trying everything it can to stay in business but it's still losing market share everywhere.

I've heard that the Chris Madden line's pulling powerful comparable sales growth for the past six to seven months. This is a category that exploding for Penney and it's also helping boost their monthly sales higher,

May has paid a crazy amount of money for what many think is a declining asset. Not all of the Marshall Field's locations make sense to May, especially in areas where the Field's stores overlap with its stores. I think the company will try to recoup some of that money, the hefty premium it paid for the chain.

They were a failed company, and they were resuscitated, and now Children's Place is the gold standard in children's merchandising in the United States.

May has paid a crazy amount of money for what many think is a declining asset, ... Not all of the Marshall Field's locations make sense to May, especially in areas where the Field's stores overlap with its stores. I think the company will try to recoup some of that money, the hefty premium it paid for the chain.

The message that Martha Stewart's publicity team sent (Wednesday) was, 'Won't it be wonderful that she's coming back and will be running the company?' ... But how will that happen? It's going to be very tricky.

One big difference was that last year retailers kept promotions under tight control. Things were more panicky this year.