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“Doing nothing wasn’t an option”: M.J. Bale CEO Matt Jensen

Inside Retail

Bale in 2009, some of the challenges you faced from the outset, and how you got the business off the ground during those early stages? Matt Jensen: It was a difficult market environment when we launched back in September 2009, given it was the back end of the GFC. But I can’t remember it being too challenging.

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From Cobblestones to Cyberspace: VMSD Celebrates Its 125th Year of Service to the Retail Industry

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New York quickly became the epicenter of burgeoning new retail concepts. cities,” says Steve Kaufman, former Editor-in-Chief of VMSD from 1998 until 2009. In sharp contrast to the harsh realities of the Depression, the 1930s was the most elegant period in Hollywood’s history. And its editor was a sometimes-writer named L.